The Act of 1790 was superseded by the Naturalization Act of 1795, which extended the residence requirement to five years, and by the Naturalization Act of 1798, which extended it to 14 years. The 1798 act was repealed by the Naturalization Law of 1802.
The Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 granted citizenship to people born within the United States AND SUBJECT TO ITS JURISDICTION, regardless of their parent’s race, citizenship or place of birth; but it excluded untaxed Indians living on reservations.
The Naturalization Act of 1870 extended “the naturalization laws” to “aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent.”
In 1898 the Supreme Court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to an American-born child of Chinese parents. All persons born in the United States since United States v. Wong Kim Ark have been granted citizenship although the Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled on the matter.
But the key is that all of these decisions and statutes affect ACTS OF NATURALIZATION, which by definition are not the same issue as NATURAL BORN citizen.
More pointedly, a statute cannot override a constitutional requirement. The only way a requirement of the U.S. Constitution may be legitimately changed is through the amendment process.
Exactly.