>>. Do you have a definition that that pre-dates Bingham’s by a more reputable source that says otherwise?<<
Law doesn’t go backwards, it goes forward. Although most Conservatives believe in Res judicata, where there was no “Judicata” the first judgement is, by definition, the bright line demarcation.
After that, each and ever SUBSEQUENT decision is the milestone. Not predecessors.
And, as I said, even the framer of a price of legislation is but an opinion. The language instantiated is our law. SUBSEQUENT clarifications provide guidance. That is how rhw USC was written and what has kept us, mostly, whole.
And it says my kids can be President even though my wife came from Mexico.
Do you say otherwise, despite the fact they can get USA passports with just Birth Certificates?