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You keep basing your arguments on Minor. If that’s all you’ve got then you have nothing. There is nothing “conclusive” there.

You already admitted that the reason to say anything about citizen parents was to go elsewhere from the Constitution, which means elsewhere from the 14th amendment, AND because it was in YOUR words a "conclusive definition" of natural-born citizen. You don't have 40 or 50 citations that prove me wrong. You don't even have one and you argued against yourself.

Our Constitution recognizes only two forms of citizenship – natural-born or naturalized. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution clarifies for any of us who would want to think otherwise that being born within the jurisdiction of the United States confers natural-born rather than naturalized citizenship. Wong Kim Ark, expressly affirms this understanding of the 14th Amendment. The dissent in Ark makes it very clear that the 6-2 majority decision afforded to Wong the right to run for President even though both of his parents were not U.S. citizens. He inherited that right because he was born in San Francisco.

Of course I could provide over 50 citations that disprove your misunderstanding but you only deserve a little of my time so here is one:

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as “Congress’s think tank”, an official governmental department along with GAO and CBO, had this to say:

“ In addition to historical and textual analysis, numerous holdings and references in federal (and state) cases for more than a century have clearly indicated that those born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction (i.e., not born to foreign diplomats or occupying military forces), even to alien parents, are citizens ‘at birth’ or ‘by birth,’ and are ‘natural born,’ as opposed to ‘naturalized,’ U.S. citizens. There is no provision in the Constitution and no controlling American case law to support a contention that the citizenship of one’s parents governs the eligibility of a native born U.S. citizen to be President.”

So go ahead and continue your little conspiracy theory in the land of wing nuts. Add words to the Constitution that do not belong there at your own peril however because that makes you no different than the liberal wing nuts out there.