So the left part is people who get their citizenship solely from jus soli (born on US soil, but parents were not citizens at the time of birth, e.g., Marco Rubio). The center is people who have both jus soli and jus sanguinis (born on US soil of one or more citizen parents). And the right is those who get their citizenship solely from jus sanguinis (born a citizen abroad to one or more citizen parents, e.g., Ted Cruz.)Facts from the Left Set:
Facts from the Right Set:
Your proposed intersection (the center):
What about Fact 2 from the Left Set? What about Fact 1 from the Right Set?
Failure to separate the individual facts is a cause of error.
Believe me, Ray, I understand both the facts and the diagrams with absolute clarity.
And the way I’ve presented the situation is correct. If you can’t understand it, or can’t accept it, that’s really your problem, not mine.
And those are irrelevant. Either jus soli or jus sanguinis, by itself, is enough to make a person a citizen by birth, and (as James Bayard said and Chief Justice John Marshall approved) citizenship by birth is sufficient for a person to be, Constitutionally, a "natural born citizen" for Article II Presidential eligibility purposes.
You've got your choice. You can either hold to the birther theory of what a natural born citizen "must" be, or you can hold to the Founding Fathers, our history, our laws, and the Constitution.
You just can't have both.