Edwin Meese, Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, 2005:
Under the longstanding English common-law principle of jus soli, persons born within the territory of the sovereign (other than the children of enemy aliens or foreign diplomats) are citizens from birth. Thus, those persons born within the United States are "natural born citizens from birth.
Meese is extrapolating a definition for a term that did not exist under English common law. The Founders would take issue with defining a natural born citizen as a subject, and I’m surprised you don’t take issue with it, yourself.
Edwin Meese is a NWO kinda guy. I personally wouldn’t take much of anything he has to say as being good for our sovereign country.
You will have to note that the globalist/internationalist Meese offers nothing more than his own opinion.
The framers of this nation chose Vattel’s Law of Nations as their guide on these matters when preparing the Declaration of Independence, and the constitution. This is clearly shown in their letters. Jus Soli addresses “subjects,” not citizens.
The difference is not small. An English subject could never become a monarch, unlike the U.S. where a Natural Born citizen can become President. Allegiance was the issue that concerned the framers of our constitution.