but you still haven’t supported your “two parent” theory......yet you quote it as if it’s Biblical.....
What kind of support are you looking for? In point of fact, the "Two Parent" theory is a derivative of the US Application of the legal concept of "Coverture." Women automatically acquired their Husband's citizenship on marriage, so the "two parent" thing is an artifact of the fact that the Male's citizenship determined the couple's citizenship.
At least it did until 1922. (Later reinforced by the Citizenship act of 1934.)
The Cable act created a condition which never existed before. Parent's of differing citizenships. I'm pretty sure that congress wasn't trying to tamper with the meaning of "natural born citizen" but that has been the effect of this legislation.
Yup....you're right. It's almost that!
About thirty years after the ratification of the Constitution.... the U.S. Supreme Court quotes "The Law of Nations" in their decision; The Venus (1814). Here is what Chief Justice Livingston had to say:
"Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says":
“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.
It would sound to me that the Supreme Court, 75 years after the publication of the "Law of Nations" was still holding to Vattel's original meaning....that the "Naturel Indigenes" (Natural Born) are those whose parents are citizens.
Most of the members of this court....themselves took part in the American Revolution....or had fathers that did. Livingston himself....was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and an aide-de-camp to General Arnold before he defected. They totally knew what the framers meant by the words.....Natural Born Citizen.