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You introduce an interesting nuance of the definition of NBC. The citizenship of the initial several presidents, of course, is not relevant - they became citizens the minute the gavel finally dropped in the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

July 4, 1776. The courts have consistently held that American citizenship began the day Congress officially declared Independence from England.

One such court case is Inglis v. Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor, 28 U.S. 99 (1830).

Thank you for the link.

Per the first sentence in your quote of my remarks, the other poster did present an avenue that had been bothering me for a while and I wanted to pursue that point but the thread went off the tracks.

That is that there was an abundance of NBC presidential candidates available when the Const. was first approved and signed. That caused me to wonder why they thought it necessary to provide what could be called a "mere citizen" option in their NBC clause.

There could be a couple of reason, but I have finally decided (I think) that fact really doesn't lend anything to our current effort to determine which of two NBC theories should be applied.

I prefer the parental citizenship definition, naturally; with the national security perspective they had vis-a-vis England there is no reason we should conclude they chose the weaker of the two definitions.