It has nothing to do with ideology and everything to so with the Constitution AS IT WAS WRITTEN. There is ample evidence from the writings of people involved, Franklin, Washington, John Jay et al, to confirm the meaning of the term Natural Born Citizen and its origin. The multiple attempts to swing the argument to Blackstone’s definition which is based on English Citizens, is erroneous. The originator of the term was E. Vattel in The Law of Nations.
Attempts have been made here on this site to discard Vattel as “simply a philosopher.” That is exactly like saying Leonardo da Vinci was only an artist so he couldn’t possibly have invented the parachute....or designed fortifications since he wasn’t...blah, blah, blah.
Vattel was the PREEMINENT International Scholar in matters of Law at the time. The English unfortunately made a false translation of his phrase in the first English Translation published in London. The FRENCH Editions(as written by Vattel) available to members of the Constitutional Committee as well as other well known patriots of the time is exactly the translation understood and used in the Constitution.
Innumerable attempts have been made to destroy the 2nd Amendment and we are undergoing destruction of the first in matters both of religion and free speech at this time. If we do not HOLD FAST to the Constitution AS IT WAS WRITTEN, we have plainly and simply lost the country.
Evidently these constitutional authorities (of different ideologies) do not share your beliefs. Guess there won’t be a definite answer coming. Only SCOTUS could give such a decision, but I doubt they’d hear such a case & I have little trust in a handful of the politically-minded justices currently there.