[Jeff Winston]

Once again, you people rely on the weakest possible standard of "citizen", and then you deliberately conflate "citizen" with "natural citizen".

You're either a complete jackass, or simply a liar.

I don't "rely" on anything. I look at history and law to see how people defined terms used in our Constitution and our law. Which, incidentally, was what I thought the discussion was about.

And I have NEVER, EVER failed to distinguish the meanings of "citizen" and "natural born citizen."

Neither has anybody else.

[DiogenesLamp]

And I have NEVER, EVER failed to distinguish the meanings of "citizen" and "natural born citizen."

Oh yeah? So which one did Wong Kim Ark decide?

[Ray76]

And I have NEVER, EVER failed to distinguish the meanings of "citizen" and "natural born citizen."

Equating the 1790 Naturalization Act's "natural born citizen" with the 1795 Naturalization Act's "citizen", is a failure to distinguish the meanings.