[DiogenesLamp]

The Founders and Framers made their views clear in the Naturalization Act of 1790, signed into law by President Washington: “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.”

And for some peculiar reason the words "shall be considered as" are invisible to you guys.

If anything, those words are a tacit admission that the two things are different.

[Nero Germanicus]

I read it differently, “...shall be considered as NATURAL BORN CITIZENS.” As I read it that means the Founders considered those born over the sae and outside the boundaries to belong in a single category. That category is NATURAL BORN CITIZENS.