Once again, the 1790 Act was an acknowledged mistake.
Before it was ever tested by a case it was entirely replaced by the 1795 act with no mention of natural born citizen.
I disagree with your assessment that it was an acknowledged mistake. These were the founding fathers that were involved with 1790 ..there was much debate over the bill in the House for days. Then there was a Final Subcommittee with 10 members to make a final bill. Then the Senate got it and debated it and on and on and on...then there was a 5 day period where it was debated by the Senate Committee. Then the bill passed.
During the House debates all kinds of things were proposed. Land restrictions, removing office holding restrictions. This is why it had to go to a 10 member Committee in the House.
The debates were long and many amendments were brought about in this whole process. There were many in the House that were not happy with the bill that came out of the Committee.
Sheesh..does this sound anything like today’s Congress???
Washington had asked them to come up a Uniform rule and they did.
The next act was done during the French Revolution. They were worried about violent revolutionaries coming to America and being able to vote.
The next two acts put in notice limitations and higher residency requirements.
It is well discussed with Historians that they also want to squelch immigrants who would vote for Jefferson’s party.
So don’t just assume it was a procedural error as many have claimed or it was a mistake.
The times changed drastically between the two Acts and they changed the law. The fall of the Bastille and the Diamond Necklace Affair had happened before 1790 but that was just the beginning.
It was a bloody time and our Founding Fathers took that into consideration in the 1795 Act.
Without those two influences, the phrase may have stayed in..but it did not.
It has been noted that much of the debate in those early years of Congress were about land holding rights and office holding rights.
Some of the things you see in Congress today are things you would have seen back in the beginning of Congress. Knowing that, don’t just assume everyone thought it was a mistake. It could very well have been a compromise in a Committee in order to get the bill passed.
All you know for sure is that it disappeared in the 1795 Act.