[curiosity]

Are you trying to tell me that this is not birthright citizenship via jus sanguinis, curiosity? And, just how is citizenship status by virtue of birth domestically determined, if not by place of birth? Are you trying to tell me that this is not birthright citizenship via jus soli?

Citizenship can be either jus soli or jus sanguini. It's jus soli when a child is born in the US, and jus sanguini when he's born overseas. I don't see why you find this so odd or "inelegant."

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s odd and inelegant because it lacks precision and is not rigorous, in a document of such serious import as our Constitution.

You’ve acknowledged that the several States determined birthright citizenship differently, curiosity.

There was not a State in the nation, that would have deemed a Presidential candidate born abroad of citizen parents eligible.

And, there were several States that would not have deemed a Presidential candidate born in one of the several States eligible, if that candidate was born of a foreign father.