They do, you have to BOTH be natural born AND have been a resident for 14 years (so if you were born here but moved as a child and grew up in another country you're ineligible)
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Ironically, historically the former has been seen as the more liberal principle and the latter the more restrictive and conservative - and it still is when people bring up the specter of "anchor babies" and the like
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The idea that ONLY jus soli can make a person "natural born" is something that was always kind of floating in the air - probably ironically because the 14th Amendment made birthright citizenship such a bedrock principle for civil rights for PoC
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