Here is the complete quote from Tucker:
“A very respectable political writer makes the following pertinent remarks upon this subject. “Prior to the adoption of the constitution, the people inhabiting the different states might be divided into two classes: natural born citizens, or those born within the state, and aliens, or such as were born out of it. The first, by their birth-right, became entitled to all the privileges of citizens; the second, were entitled to none, but such as were held out and given by the laws of the respective states prior to their emigration.”
The very respectable political writer he is referring to was George Nicholas.
He was a member of the Virginia Ratifying Convention and a good friend of James Madison.
What he is saying is that people inhabiting a state are of two types. The first are the natural born (born within the state) or the second, aliens (born outside of the state). The inhabitants of a state are not necessarily born there.
The inhabitants of a state are not necessarily born there.
True, they are not, but this quote from Tucker is from notes on his annotation of Blackstone's Commentaries. The original says:
OF THE PEOPLE, WHETHER ALIENS, DENIZENS, OR NATIVES
The first and most obvious division of the people is into aliens and natural-born subjects.1 Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England; that is, within the ligeance, or, as it is generally called, the allegiance, of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it.
Chapter X , William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England i
Other that the inhabitant remark, Tucker quotes Blackstone almost verbatim.
Whether it is allegiance to a King or Allegiance to a country, the principal is the same.
Without a pre-existing tie, there is no allegiance, and without that allegiance, one cannot be natural born.