Supreme Court Cases that Cite “Natural Born Citizen” as One Born on U.S. Soil to Citizen Parents is as follows:
Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 253 253 (1814)
Shanks v DuPont, 28 U.S. 3 Pet. 242 242 (1830)
Dred Scott v Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)
Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875)
United States v Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939)
Not familiar with most of those cases, but Van Ark comes up a lot and I did read up on that one. In that case Van Ark was denied to be a citizen, though born in the US. IIRC, the issue was ‘native’ born vs ‘natural born’.
I do agree that legally anyone born in the US is a native born citizen, but a ‘Natural born’ citizen is a separate issue.
I also would favor a change in the law that would require one parent to be either a citizen, or legal resident, of the country for the child to be considered a citizen. I’m