It is my argument that the 14th Amendment is nothing but a naturalization amendment, and was never anything else. I keep coming back to this statement by Chief Justice Waite:
The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens.
What does it mean when the 14th amendment plainly says this?
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ...
Could he possibly mean that the 14th amendment does not say who shall be "natural born citizens"?
If the fundamental rule is citizenship by birth within the country, then there is no room for a special subset of those born within the country to citizen parents.
Also, if there were such a special category, it seems odd he wouldn't mention it during a discussion of other exceptions to the fundamental rule of citizenship.