You can be a citizen at birth without being eligible. NBC is the highest standard of citizen at birth.
“You can be a citizen at birth without being eligible. NBC is the highest standard of citizen at birth.”
You are able to cite laws that say such?
There are no “high or low” standards for citizenship. Do you not know how to read the Constitution?
The is no lawful Constitutional definition of Natural Born Citizen. There are only Natural and Naturalized citizens. There is no third level.
This sticky NBC situation was unintentionally or maybe even intentionally, left undefined by the very Founders that put it in the Constitution.
I contend they put NBC in to cover their post Revolution world sometimes hard to define USA citizenship that could have been relatively easily infiltrated by British citizens at that time. The Founders and the new Americans knew exactly who was and who was not NBC. Once that generation was gone their knowing died with them as they chose to not define it as any special level of citizenship for future generations.
SCOTUS will avoid NBC like the plague, because it is a pure political question, not a legal or Constitutional one.
The only parties that can establish once and for all exactly what NBC is, is Congress. All they have to do is write an Amendment defining NBC.