“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”
John Jay’s letter to Washington advising changing Hamilton’s suggested “born a citizen” to “natural born citizen” to exclude the possibility of foreigners in the Oval Office.
The children of foreigners ARE foreigners.
They are PRECISELY who the founders were excluding.