“Why do you think the term ‘naturalized’ is used?”
I often wonder how birthers justify applying that term to the native born, given their insistence on a fundamental difference between natural born citizens and native born citizens. Is it merely a term of art, with no real significance? Or is being “made natural” actually what happens?
In that case, if you are “made natural” at birth, doesn’t that make you a natural born citizen? How can you be made natural at birth and not be born a natural citizen? Is it, as I theorized with another poster, that there’s a lacuna in the few seconds after birth. Like, only when you are one second old does the positive law kick in and make you natural. If there’s no lag, and being made natural coincides with being born, I don’t see how you get anything but natural born.
You just leapt into the realm of the absurd with that reply.