There is a clause that made allowance for those that were born in what was to become the USA. The reason they wanted only a NBC going forward is they didn’t want divided loyalties. Our founders were brilliant.
Honestly If Obama isn’t the very description of the problem of divided loyalties - the maybe Muslim citizen of the world who went on a world apology tour - I don’t know who is. We rebuked the founders and have paid the price.
Oh, I get that .. but what my question really relates to is that the Framers understanding of “Natural Born Citizen” would have meant something beyond ‘citizen,’ and what was understood by them at the time I would daresay was that NBC is the citizen born of citizens.