“And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens”
Thanks for making my point. The Act had to do with alien naturalization, and they only became citizens after natualization. The children born to citizen parents became natural born citizens.
No.
It was your citation, but you need to go back and read it again, without the filter of what you want it to say.
They were silent on the topic of persons born within the United States. They did want to make it clear that if you were traveling or stationed abroad, your children would still be US “natural born citizens”. So it could be taken as evidence that the first congress, the guys who either wrote or were involved in ratifying the Constitution took a broad view of who should be a “natural born citizen”.
Claiming that your sources say something they don’t is a good way to make sure that this NBC convo remains a topic for grumpy old farts in smokey back rooms.