OK, all teasing aside, if you have gotten to the point where your legal theory makes you think the 14th Amendment does NOT apply to people born in America of two citizen parents, then that should be your wake-up call that something is wrong with your theory. Rather than just going all in on a pair of twos, this is when you start asking yourself, “Uh Oh, did I really say that??? OMG, what was I thinking???
Everybody in the universe has said stupid stuff before, and the best way out is just to admit it. I have been wrong about stuff before and the more I tried to cover it up, the worse it got. Just let yourself be a human being and get out out of this trap while you can. That is my advice.
What is with all the “legal theory” stuff?? I haven’t posed any theories. The SCOTUS specifically rejected a claim by V. Minor of being a citizen by virtue of the 14th amendment. If the court thought that it only took being born on U.S. soil to be a natural-born citizen, there was no reason for them to reject her argument, yet they did so UNANIMOUSLY. That’s not a theory. It is a fact and Justice Gray recognized it and mentioned in a couple of different ways in the Wong Kim Ark decision. That legal precedent is what kept him from declaring Ark to be a natural-born citizen.