US Citizen or US Natural Born Citizen?

by Gerry Nance

1) US Citizen:
a) Is a "first-generation" citizen resulting from naturalization, or by birth of a citizen and an
alien.
b) Can be naturalized in a United State where resident.
c) Can be native born of two an alien parents.
d) Can be native born of one US Citizen parent plus one alien parent.
e) Can be native born of one US Natural Born Citizen parent plus one alien parent.
f) Can be foreign born of one US Citizen parent plus one alien parent.
g) Can be foreign born of one US Natural Born Citizen parent plus one alien parent.
h) Can be a foundling when found abandoned in a US state when under 5 years of age, unless
foreign birth is established before the child reaches age 21.
i) Has equal rights and responsibilities as a US Natural Born Citizen.
j) Can serve in every government position, except in the line of succession to the US
Presidency.

2) US Natural Born Citizen:

a) Is a "second-generation" citizen resulting only from birth.
b) Cannot be a naturalized to become a US Natural Born Citizen.
c) Cannot be conceived or born out of wedlock.
d) Cannot be a foundling.
e) Cannot be born of an alien parent.
f) Cannot ever have been born a dual-citizen.
g) Can on reaching majority become dual-citizen without losing US Natural Born Citizenship.
h) Can be born of two US Citizen parents.
i) Can be born of two US Natural Born Citizen parents.
j) Can be born of one US Citizen parent plus one US Natural Born parent.
k) Can be native born of two US Citizen parents.
l) Can be native born of two US Natural Born Citizen parents.
m) Can be native born of parents where one is a US Citizen and the other a US Natural Born
Citizen.
n) Can be native born posthumously of two US Citizen parents.
o) Can be native born posthumously of two US Natural Born Citizen parents.
p) Can be native born posthumously of parents where one is a US Citizen and the other a US
Natural Born Citizen.
q) Can be foreign born of two US Citizen parents under special circumstances.
r) Can be foreign born of two US Natural Born Citizen parents under special circumstances.
s) Can be foreign born of two parents where one is a US Citizen plus the other a US Natural
Born Citizen under special circumstances.
t) Has equal rights and responsibilities as a US Citizen.
u) Can serve in every government position, including in the line of succession to the US
Presidency.

3) Rules:
a) Since a society consists of its citizens, then a society determines the rules of nationality.
b) Since conception can occur without matrimony, then nationality is not controlled by
matrimony, unless a society so chooses.
c) Allegiance to a society determines citizenship.
d) Since a child is under the age of consent and cannot contract, then a child follows the
allegiance of the parents.
e) Since a society controls territory, then a society controls the application of the society's laws
affecting nationality, within territory controlled by the society.
f) Occupation of a society's territory is not citizenship.
g) Since blood creates a being, then blood controls nationality.
h) A society can rule how the science of -- for example; artificial insemination, surrogate
motherhood, or adoption, affect nationality.
i) A society can rule how the dependencies of the marital relationship and child custody affect
the derivative citizenship of the family.
j) A child conceived by artificial insemination or born by surrogacy is born out of wedlock.
k) Territory is a place of birth, not a nationality, unless a society so chooses, .
l) Since man's laws control nationality and matrimony, then man's laws can determine how
conception and matrimony controls nationality.
m) Since aliens are visitors to a society, then the children born of aliens, while present in the
territory of a society, do not become members of the society, but are members of their
parent's society.
n) If a society accepts an alien as a resident of the society and the alien has allegiance to the
society, then society may accept the alien's children as citizens, but not as natural born.
o) Since invaders are un-welcomed by a society, then the children born of invaders, while
present in the territory of a society, do not become members of the invaded society, but are
members of the invader's society.
p) Since US natural born citizenship is derived by blood, and naturalization is derived by
man's laws, then concluding that life is not lost by the shedding of law, but naturalization is
lost by the shedding of law; and while life is lost by the shedding of blood, therefore a
natural born citizen survives without the naturalization laws of man.