Those who are born as citizens are natural born citizens as they have no need of naturalization. Your assertion that “Congress has no authority to make a statute governing the citizenship of a person born in the US...” is demonstratively incorrect.
Firstly, Title 8 section 1401 subsection A clearly describes the situation you speak of and secondly, the very first Congress stated that individuals born beyond the jurisdiction of the US, to US parents where to be treated as “natural born citizens”.
Why did you purposely leave out the end of my sentence?
I said born in the US “OF CITIZEN PARENTS.”
I don’t like it when someone puts quotation marks around what I said and then leaves out part of the quote. It is misleading.
Ted Cruz and others would not have US citizenship without meeting the requirements of the Congressional (man made) statutes. People born here of citizen parents don’t need a statute. They derive their citizenship naturally from their parents. It’s that simple.