Written by people with an interest in opening up eligibility.
Natural born citizen means one is “naturally” a citizen because they cannot be anything else.
If one is born with other nationalities owing to foreign national parents, one is not “naturally” a citizen.
Born here of citizen parents.
Leaves no doubt.
Wishing and hoping still won’t make it so, lol.
The dictionary definition of “natural-born” at the time of the writing of the Constitution was “having or possessing an attribute from birth” and no alternative definition existed at the time, nor was one provided by the Founders. They could quite easily have done so instead of leaving that oh so important requirement to just three words already defined in the dictionaries of the day.
Either you are born a citizen or you are not. If born a citizen, you are a natural-born citizen. There is no third class of citizen, “born a citizen but not a natural-born citizen”. If you wish for there to be such a class of citizen, go get a constitutional amendment.
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