No, that's just the big lie that (((they))) push
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founding fathers commonly understood NBC in the sense of how Vattel wrote it when they based their legal system on his book:
Le Droit des gens : Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqués à la conduite et aux affaires des Nations et des Souverains
USA was tight with France, both were democracies breaking away from monarchies.
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People are basically trying to mislead you regarding originalism if they say it refers to birth only.
That's how NBC was used in the British Commonwealth, yes, but the argument that USA just automatically inherits that application is complete BS.
They were REBELLING against the Brits, and they embrace Vattel's usage for DECADES, his 3-requirement use (born there, citizen dad, citizen mom) was what originalists meant, not the bullshit Brit 1-req "just be born here" bullshit.
Only if you buy into the lie that FF would GAF about Brit usage when they already embraced Vattel's definition of what natives are.
Here's the original French if you're skeptical, I highlighted in red where Vattel uses parents in plural and later talks about how even having a single foreign parent means you're not natural-born
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The phrase "d'un etranger" which gets translated as "foreigner" refers to non-citizens, you're not classified as a foreigner if you have become naturalized.
Trump's mom for example was born in Scotland to a non-American mom and non-American dad, so she fails all 3 requirements of being an NBC. She however became a US citizen years before Donald's birth, so due to her naturalization she was a non-foreigner and thus both Trump's parents were citizens at the time of his birth and he qualifies.
Fun fact though: Trump has two elder siblings who were not NBCs (they were born while mom was only a Permanent Resident, it hadn't been 5 years so she hadn't been sworn in as citizen yet) and only one of Trump's kids (a daughter) is actually an NBC because in all other cases his wives hadn't been sworn in as citizens yet, they were also just permanent residents.
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