Yes, but they didn't have a time machine to zoom forward to use the 19th Century English edition like so many here claim.
Also, your claim that a minor can have his citizenship taken away from him also has no backing. In fact, it's contraindicated by legal precedent, to my knowledge.
Legal precedent, for those of us who can entertain more than a single thought, has been reversed many times, over time, by the Supreme Courts themselves.