Please tell us what is “natural born”?
“Please tell us what is ‘natural born’?”
Natural born is by birth.
The term itself invokes neither place nor parentage. In the Wong Kim Ark case, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that our Constitution is written in he language of English Common law. We did not take English law as our own, but we did generally adopt the language. The Court answered bushpilot1’s question of “what is ‘natural born’?” by quoting British jurist A.V. Dicey:
“’Natural-born British subject’ means a British subject who has become a British subject at the moment of his birth.’”
In the same decision, the High Court wrote, “The use of ‘citizen’ in our law is precisely analogous to the use of ‘subject’ in British Common Law.” Now our precise analog to Court’s quoted definitional statement is:
“Natural-born United States citizen” means a United States Citizen who has become a United States citizen at the moment of his or her birth.