[Kansas58]

Tell me how Congress was able to do so, if you do not think Congress has such power?
Clearly, Congress DID legislate citizenship at birth, by statute, several times!

You Birthers have contradicted yourself several times in this thread, you all need to have a meeting soon, so that you can get your stories straight!

Birthers have stated that Congress has no power to legislate Citizenship.

Birthers have also posted links and quotations and legal authorities clearly showing that Congress CAN legislate the rules for Citizenship at Birth.

More to the point, I specifically DID get you a Wikipedia Link showing many of the dates during which US Citizenship rules have changed, by Statute. I first used the State Department website as my proof source, a few years ago, but Hillary has changed the application for Passport so that it is not nearly as specific and helpful in this area.

[El Gato]

Clearly, Congress DID legislate citizenship at birth, by statute, several times!

I say again, if someone is a citizen only because of a law passed by Congress, they must be considered naturalized, for that is the only power Congress has, to define a rule for naturalization. Nothing about the rule need say they must file papers or take tests. It can just be by the "rule", and whatever criteria the rule sets. But that's not natural born.

I'm still waiting for the citation to what section of the Constitution delegates power to the Congress to define natural born.

Even the 1790 law which confered citizenship on the children of citizens born outside the jurisdiction of the US only said they "shall be considered as natural born Citizens", not that they shall be natural born citizens.

[El Gato]

Clearly, Congress DID legislate citizenship at birth, by statute, several times!

I say again, if someone is a citizen only because of a law passed by Congress, they must be considered naturalized, for that is the only power Congress has, to define a rule for naturalization. Nothing about the rule need say they must file papers or take tests. It can just be by the "rule", and whatever criteria the rule sets. But that's not natural born.

I'm still waiting for the citation to what section of the Constitution delegates power to the Congress to define natural born.

Even the 1790 law which conferred citizenship on the children of citizens born outside the jurisdiction of the US only said they "shall be considered as natural born Citizens", not that they shall be natural born citizens.