>>>If not for the 14th Amendment and the laws enacted to implement it not a single African-American in this country would be a citizen of any kind. Are you saying they can’t be natural-born citizens because of the law?
The first generation of black Americans were naturalized by law. Their offspring are natural born because they inherited their citizenship from their parents.
Because the law says they do, as persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction there of. So by the definition given then they are citizens by rule of law and not natural-born citizens.