The reason the they put the Natural Born citizen requirement in the Constitution was to PROTECT this nation from foreign influences. You were given your natural born citizenship through your FATHER who had already pledged his allegiance to the United States and the United States only. It may sound very un PC, but their attitude was it’s us or them. You can’t have both.
Please see post 203 and the Supreme Court decision it references.
The (long) decision makes it very clear that citizenship under the common law and under US law has only been derived primarily derived from place of birth. Only in rare exceptions was the parentage of the child relevant. And, yes, at the time it was the father who was relevant. Given changes during the last century to make the laws sex-neutral, I suspect this has been changed and the mother’s status is now equally relevant.
A baby becomes a natural born citizen if a citizen at birth. Either because of being born on US soil, or through being born to a parent who is a citizen.
This idea about parental citizenship - other than being one way to become a natural born US citizen - is very, very unique.
Every anchor baby can grow up to be President, which I personally think is a good thing in the case of Bobby Jindel and my godson.