[curiosity]

For the fifty-first time, it did. What part of "all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens ..."

And what part of "out of context" do you not understand? Why don't you to quote the sentence that comes right after those elipses of yours?

[edge919]

It’s not out of context. The elipses left out these parts. Which part of that context do you believe changes anything??

“At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that ...

... as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”