You have NO right to mess with ‘original intent’. GET over yourself.
“You are out to liberalville. There is NO authority given to Congress or any court to give or take ‘natural born’ US citizenship. NONE:”
Yes there is.
Whenever a term is not defined, it is a delegation to Congress to define the term.
Same thing happens when Congress writes statutes. It is clearly the power of the executive branch agency to define unclear terms or clear up uncertainty in the statute.
Because the Constitution does not define the term “natural born citizen” it is the Congress’ power AND DUTY to define the term.
Congress has done so since 1790.
Congress has the power to define who is a natural born citizen.
You cannot accept the fact that natural born citizen is NOT defined in the Constitution.
“You have NO right to mess with ‘original intent’. GET over yourself. “
The original intent of the Constitutional Convention tracks the two dominant influences on the founders:
1) THE BIBLE
2) Precedent from British common law.
1) THE BIBLE: Citizenship follows the parents, not the place of birth.
Children born in Egypt to Israelite parents were ISRAELITES — not Egyptians.
Children born in Babylon, Assyria, Rome, etc. to Israelite parents were ISRAELITES.
The overwhelmingly dominant influence on the American Founding makes the place of birth irrelevant and the parents of the child EVERYTHING in deciding citizenship.
2) English common law. As much as 100 years before the founding of America, the British parliament was using the power of naturalization to define who is a natural born subject, and specifying that children born in foreign lands to British subjects are natural born subjects of the UK