[MamaTexan]

statutory citizenship may or may not be equivalent to natural-born citizenship under the U.S. Constitution.

LOL! As if the ability to be born with only one parent isn't bad enough!

You have to admire the way they twist words, though.

They ARE 'equal', but they are not the same. Statutory citizenship, or Naturalization, is a citizen by the positive law of Man.

Natural born citizenship is one designated by Natural Law, or what the Founders called the Law of Nature.

Are they equal, sure, but a statutory citizens do not have the priviledge of the ability to run for President or VP.

THAT is reserved for natural born Citizens.

It was the way it was supposed to work, anyway. Until government decided it had the ability to define damn well everything.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Lest anyone doubt that they're paying attention to our debate on eligibility, note the following paragraph in the Foreign Affairs manual dated 8.9.2013. (Original emphasis included.)

7 FAM 1131.6-3 Not Citizens by "Naturalization"
(CT:CON-479; 08-19-2013)

Section 101(a)(23) INA (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(23)) provides that the term "naturalization" means "the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth, by any means whatsoever." Persons who acquire U.S. citizenship at birth by birth abroad to a U.S. citizen parent or parents who meet the applicable statutory transmission requirements are not considered citizens by naturalization.