[Kansas58]

the very case rulings you Birthers cough up cite, from the Court, that there is little or no guidance on these issues, and they refer, therefore, to COMMON LAW on citizenship issues.

We have several acts of Congress, since those cases, concerning citizenship.

[philman_36]

We have several acts of Congress, since those cases, concerning citizenship.
Which acts of Congress?! Can you name even one?

[edge919]

Congress only has the power to naturalize. This is defined by the Constitution. Natural-born citizenship is defined outside U.S. law and outside the Constitution. This is what the Supreme Court said very clearly in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark:

In Minor v. Happersett, Chief Justice Waite, when construing, in behalf of the court, the very provision of the Fourteenth Amendment now in question, said: "The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens.""