Chief Justice John Jay, Chief Justice John Marshall, Chief Justice Morrison Waite, and the father of the 14th Amendment, John Bingham, to name a few.
I honestly doubt you'll find any Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the eighteenth, nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, who would agree with your loose interpretation of a very specific, legal term of art in the Constitution, since every pertinent Supreme Court decision from that era, was within the understanding found in Vattel's The Law Of Nations.
Matter of fact, when pressed, to this day there appear to be no Justices, nor any Congressmen, willing to go on record, and point blank agree with your interpretation, Technical Writer. Witness the truly bizarre Sense of the Senate Resolution, SR 511, which states that John McCain was born of citizen parents, and on U.S. soil.
You'd have us believe that this was all just some odd coincidence, I suppose?
“Natural born” comes from English common law.
You totally misunderstand what SR 511 meant. He was born outside the United States (Panama was NOT U.S. soil, nor is any military base of the U.S. in a foreign country; Panama was LEASED to the U.S.). The federal law at the time of his birth was that a child born abroad of two U.S. citizens is a citizen at birth. That’s all SR 511 said. It simply affirmed the provision of the law that existed in 1936, which as a matter of fact, is the same provision in TODAY’S law regarding the status of children born outside the U.S. to two U.S. citizens.
See http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html.