[Abd al-Rahiim]

That doesn't answer my question as to how you know that the Founders "were moving closer to the concept of natural born citizens as it had been practiced in most Occidental societies for millenia." But that's besides the point; under the original meaning school of originalism, it's irrelevant.

The United States in 1961 recognized the allegiance of the child at birth to be that of the adult father or adult parent, while reserving the possibility the child could elect to renounce natural born foreign allegiance and natural born foreign citizenship upon reaching the majority age of an adult and thereafter exercise only U.S. native born citizenship.

Is that so? Where does it say that in the Constitution or U.S. code?

[WhiskeyX]

To save time, see:

The State Department Has “Always” Recognized And Abided By Foreign Laws Concerning US Citizens Born With Dual Nationality.

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/the-state-department-has-always-recognized-and-abided-by-foreign-laws-concerning-us-citizens-born-with-dual-nationality/