No, I am not reading into it too much. You aren’t reading it properly.
The 14th Amendment deems ‘citizenship’ to those who are either:
BORN in the United States AND subject to the jurisdiction thereof
OR
NATURALIZED in the United States AND subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
Barack Obama would fall into the first category and so would an ‘anchor baby’. Both by being BORN on US soil AND being subject to the jurisdiction thereof. They are citizens of the United States as defined in the 14th Amendment.
Arnold would fall into the second because he was NATURALIZED in the United States AND was subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
The 14h Amendment grants the same ‘level’ of citizenship to all three people. If Arnold can’t serve because he is ‘only’ a citizen of the United States, then neither can Barack Obama or Wong Kim Ark because they are ‘only’ citizens of the United States as well.
There are two types of citizens:
(1)Natural born citizens of the United States (can be President)
(2)Citizens of the United States (cannot be President)
Barack is a citizen of the United States (BORN in US to one foreign citizen)
Arnold is a citizen of the United States (NATURALIZED)
Wong Kim Ark was a citizen of the United States (BORN in the US to two foreign citizen)
A natural born citizen requires no STATUTE to achieve their natural born citizenship.
Obama, Arnold, and Anchor Baby all receive their citizenship via the SAME Statute (14th Amendment).
“A natural born citizen requires no STATUTE to achieve their natural born citizenship.”
This is a nonsensical distninction. If a law says you are a citizen at birth, then you are a natural born citizen. No one can tell you that you are any less a citizen than the magical people who somehow were natural born without any law telling them so.
PERKINS V. ELG, 307 U. S. 325 (1939) says otherwise. Already posted on this thread.