Mr. Collins had a persuasive arguement which he made in 1884.
In fact in 1892 in the Supreme Court case US vs Wong Kim Ark two Supreme court justices agreed with him.
Unfortunately for Mr. Collins arguement the other 7 didn’t.
I don’t put much stock in law review articles that the Supreme Court later repudiates.
My mistake. US vs Wong Kim Ark was decided in 1898 not 1892.
If you read the ARK decision CAREFULLY, you will find that the result of the decision was that Ark was found to be a citizen of the United States - per the 14th Amendment ...
Not natural born citizen, as Ark’s attorney had claimed - but citizen, and as such, was allowed entry into the United States ...
That same 1884 article by Collins was posted on another FR thread earlier this week. There I posted a similar comment to yours, calling Collins' strict patrilineal citizenship theory archaic. Not only has the SCOTUS repudiated it, but so have subsequent US citizenship statutes in many instances.