“Natural-born citizens are the nation’s “posterity” that the Constitution was ordained and established to secure.”
Correct, also, the “posterity” of naturalized citizens, whose children become natural born citizens.
The Naturalization Act of 1790, which was written shortly after the Constitution, and by the same people who wrote the Constitution, defines the natural born clause that they wrote into the Constitution. It clearly defines what a natural born citizen is, and it only descends through the father. And the meaning associated with the term as it was understood at the time of adoption of the Constitution is locked into the Constitution and can only be changed through the amendment process.
Due to a Supreme Court decision in 1930, NATURALIZED citizenship can descend through the mother.
Under your screwy logic, the natural born clause would have been useless to insert into the Constitution as a qualification to be president.
As I posted, "If you are an alien who becomes a naturalized citizen, you become one of We the People, and then your children that follow become the nation's posterity... the citizen People and their citizen children."
Or in the language of the Preamble, "ourselves and our Posterity."
-PJ