You haven't answered my question. You are posing an alternative question, that of when the rights are recognized, and in that regard, I agree. They aren't recognized until they are recognized. The issue under debate is whether or not the right exist before it is recognized.
In inheritence, we are dealing with a transfer of property. In citizenship, we are dealing with a personal attribute, something that can't be taken from one and given to another. Does "the one" possess US citizenship at birth, or only after applying for it?
“You haven’t answered my question.”
I believe that I have answered that question in several different ways, but for some reason you are not understanding the concept.
“The issue under debate is whether or not the right exist before it is recognized.”
That is why I emphasized that the citizenship is a right. This right which comprehends the bundle of civil rights that defines citizenship comes into existence at birth, assuming all the pre-conditions of parent citizenship and residence are met at birth.
“Does “the one” possess US citizenship at birth, or only after applying for it?”
The right to claim citizenship that came into existence at birth. The right to actually enjoy the current and future civil rights of the at birth right to citizenship is PERFECTED, i.e. completed, finished, executed, enforceable (Black, 6th ed), by satisfaction of the preconditions at the required time and place. In other words, the act of possession begins at birth and may or may not be fully completed, executed and be enforceable until a Consular Officer or other State Department official certifies the statutory requirements have been satisfied.
Using the word “possess” to define the difference, a analogy may be the right obtained by the acquisition and possession of a winning 100 million dollar lottery ticket, which gave the purchaser-possessor the right to claim the 100 million dollars, but the right to actually experience the enjoyment of the 100 million dollar winnings will not commence and be executed until certain conditions for redeeming the lottery ticket brings about the execution of the possessed right.
I don’t know how I can make it any clearer. The right of citizenship come into existence at birth, assuming the conditions for the existence of the right are present; but the rights of citizenship will remain unexecuted and unfulfilled until the rights possessed since birth have been settled and executed for the enjoyment of the possessor of those birth rights.