[DiogenesLamp]

“Citizen of the United States at Birth” is one category and “Naturalized U.S. Citizen” is a completely different category. There is no such category in U.S. Law: constitutional, statutory, common or administrative law as “Citizen by Birth.”

Hair splitting and Word Games. I think the Supreme Court summed up the point succinctly in Wong Kim Ark.

A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized,...by authority of Congress, exercised ... by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens...

The Supreme court just out and out says that when Congress gives citizenship to the foreign born children of citizens, it constitutes "naturalization."

[Nero Germanicus]

It will be interesting to see if the same Supreme Court decision that is primarily responsible for Barack Obama being ruled eligible is used to rule Ted Cruz ineligible: Honolulu versus Calgary.
I wonder if Senator Cruz was ever issued a Certificate of Naturalization.