Was anyone listening to Neil Boortz’s radio show Friday? His guest host who I think was Erick Erickson got a call from someone who tried to bring up the “natural born” question. Erickson said the issue had been decided in 1793 and that citizenship passed through the mother. Any idea what he was talking about? He didn’t cite any references and pretty much brushed off the caller and moved on to something else.
There was a naturalization act of sorts passed by one of the first Congresses, then repealed four years later. I haven’t read it, I should dig it out, one of my computers has the complete collection of United States Statutes at Large on it...
I don’t think it’s relevant because Congress CANNOT change by legislation what the founders meant and wrote at the convention.