re: #144 SanFranciscoZionist

Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case of the annexation of foreign territory, or by authority of Congress, exercised either by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens, or by enabling foreigners individually to become citizens by proceedings in the judicial tribunals, as in the ordinary provisions of the naturalization acts.

Now, children of citizens born abroad ARE citizens. So is the judge saying that these people are not ‘natural born’, since they are ‘naturalized’ by authority of Congress saying that they are citizens?

Confused.

I was born out of country as a US citizen. I’m pretty sure I cannot become president.