A natural born citizen refers to someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth, and did not need to go through a naturalization proceeding later in life. Under the 14th Amendment's Naturalization Clause and the Supreme Court case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US. 649, anyone born on U.S. soil and subject to its jurisdiction is a natural born citizen, regardless of parental citizenship.
Looks like this is still very much in dispute. The arguments that a natural born citizen is one who is born of parents who are citizens, regardless of where they were born, and that simply being born in the US doesn't qualify one as being a "natural born" citizen, only in being a citizen.
This particular explanation makes the most sense to me, BUT I think it's noteworthy that there is wide dispute and/or disparity in views on the topic.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/natural_born_citizen
Thank you for this insight.
Looks like this is still very much in dispute. The arguments that a natural born citizen is one who is born of parents who are citizens, regardless of where they were born, and that simply being born in the US doesn't qualify one as being a "natural born" citizen, only in being a citizen.
This particular explanation makes the most sense to me, BUT I think it's noteworthy that there is wide dispute and/or disparity in views on the topic.
This thread has been an education process for me.
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Sorry. I meant to include this clip (below) as the explanation that makes the most sense to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=h9PxdDvgQks