See #492
I meant to mention that Cumberland County Virginia is not in modern day Kentucky but is all the way into eastern Ky and then halfway into modern Virginia. It is probably in the neighborhood of 300 miles anyway, and in a time of terrible problems with the native american population, it was a danger time. Travel was an arduous task, so settlers floating down the Ohio to settle the region did not easily set out to attend the court in Cumberland County.
I’m guessing they had an informal system of fulfilling the obligations of the Naturalization Law of 1790 when that often was necessary. Alan Eckert’s histories contain many examples of militias raised to combat the natives.
They, too, swear an oath of allegiance. Residency, oath, good character and you’re in.
That definitely seems to be the intent of the Congress and the States. From there it seems a small distance to argue that was also the intent of the Delegates and the States in approving Article II, but the one bit of information does not necessarily completely prove the other.
In any case, it is a very good argument, and I find it greatly persuasive.