[Beckwith]

That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be anative-born citizen

That's not what the Constitution states.

The language is "natural born citizen."

A "native born citizen" is one who is born in the U.S. mainland of two foreign parents."

Read this

[ml/nj]

See my post earlier today on another thread which considers the definitions and usage histories of natural-born and native-born given by the Oxford English Dictionary.

ML/NJ

[Army MP Retired]

Apparently, in 1803 Mr. Tucker interpreted native and natural to by synonymous. The dissertation is based on Blackwell and English law.