Close, yes. there were a couple authors of the view that it was only the father’s citizenship that counted...But that appeared to be a minority and both parents’ citizenships were generally required , plus birth locus of course
The closer question would be the Canal Zone, if a candidate happened to be born there... given that.....””all rights, power and authority within the Zone...which the U.S would possess and exercise as if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said land and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise of the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority” per the 1903 Hay/Bunau/Varilla Treaty. There was no such “almost but not quite” thing when the constitution was written, but I think a court today would say that’s close enough for government work,” namely NBC. just my opinion. I am going to sign off this thread now because I got dragged into the whole NBC argument before and just got tired of it. It is obvious that the constitution is no longer germane to how the former republic of USA is run nowadays, anyway. And just look at the seven years of judicial ducking (enabling, protecting) of the most recent and OBVIOUSLY ineligible person of interest (regardless of, and even if the of the fake Hawaiian pixels had been genuine). And this time around there were maybe 4 ineligible candidates and they were all permitted to run and presumably if one were to win election he’d be allowed to serve just like the last ineligible person, originalistically speaking. IMHO arguing the constitution these days is a glorious waste of time and exercise in nostalgia, but thanks for your comments and views!
I am of the mind that it is the Father that the child follows....the child takes his name after all.
Considering it used to be that the wife became the man via marriage, she became a citizen too so in that time the two parent citizenship is moot in my view.
As to the canal zone kerfuffle over McCain, he was born outside the zone, yes a technicality but none the less it happened.
It is curious that the Senate pass SR511, though not binding, yet they passed it.
Even more curious was it was Clinton and Obama who instigated it.