These things are easy enough to find before you go insulting other FReepers.
Again, he was not arguing for "natural born citizen." In 1789 there were no "natural born citizens" old enough to be in Congress. Likewise, if his argument is birth right by soil, then why is his next sentence an invocation of right by blood?
How many times must we continuously shoot down a fallacy before insults become appropriate?
Listen Peabrain!
The post I was reacting to suggested that the Madison quote was invented. It wasn't. People who would suggest otherwise are DANGEROUS to this website and the Republic.
You really have little clue about what the Framers meant by natural-born if you think this is cut and dried. I say this as one who started from the position that it referred to who ones parents were.
ML/NJ