[[Trump would have been US citizen through his father]]
the point was that people who try to claim Ted isn’t a citizen arbitrarily go back to certain precepts/rules in order to make hte4 case- there are rules at one point which stated that both parents ‘must be natural born citizens’ (pointing all the way back to English law which our laws were based on they claim) (but the funny thing is the people making the claim won’t acknowledge that NBC parents handed down citizenship by descent according to this same regulation in England), then others state only the father needs to be a ‘citizen’ or ‘native citizen’ - then later rules stated the mother was allowed to pass citizenship, and of on and so forth- the fact is that it was left to congress to define the regulations/requirements down through the ages, so those making claims that Ted isn’t eligible, based on the first regulations citing need for both parents being NBC and child born ‘on soil’- then this disqualifies trump as well-
It was left to Congress to set the laws to NATURALIZE. That is all. One main reason was because the various states each had different “naturalization” requirements to become a citizen.
One state might have had a 5 year residency, one a three year for example. A uniform rule needed to be set. Each state still has it’s own rules on when you are a official resident of that particular state and what laws you are under. As a NYer I am SUFFOCATED by state residency law if I want to be a snowbird. UGH.
Anyway, back in the early days our laws were first strict English common law of course, then as the years passed those laws were gradually changed a bit here and there to meet the needs of the young country. Read Binney.
I rely on the words of the learned people of that time period of American history to shape my understanding. NOT modern naturalization law, or how best to fit old English law (really all over the map) into our modern naturalization statutes.