So what you are telling me is that centuries old English law trumps what our founding fathers wrote during the first Congress and in the Constitution...
“So what you are telling me is that centuries old English law trumps what our founding fathers wrote during the first Congress and in the Constitution...”
No. What the Supreme Court is saying is that the Founders used the phrase NBC deliberately, and that it is a legal term whose meaning can be understood by looking at English common law.
This doesn’t make English common law binding on the USA, but merely says that English common law provided the lingua franca used by lawyers at the time the Constitution was written. It is pertinent if original intent is important.
There is a reason the Founders wrote NBC instead of “born of citizen parents”.