“KISS” is my motto. It's also just plain common sense as stated by Justice Story in his Rules for Constitutional Interpretation. I found his works in early 2009 & have lived by them since when researching the history & interpretation of the 14th which “DOES” give us the meaning of Article II natural born. Donofrio & Mario disagree with me, but then they have been bogged down by their lawyer degrees. As Justice Story said in that commentary:
§ 210. XV. In the first place, then, every word employed in the constitution is to be expounded in its plain, obvious, and common sense, unless the context furnishes some ground to control, qualify, or enlarge it. Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness, or juridical research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them; the people adopt them; the people must be supposed to read them, with the help of common sense; and cannot be presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary gloss.
We could use a few “new” Justices Story these days. Brilliant clarity of mind!!