[Godebert]

"That 1790 law defined that people born outside of the US but of US citizen parents were natural born citizens. This was a law made by the First Congress of the United States, and it basically says what they thought at the time that people who met those conditions were natural born citizens. You got anything before 1790 that said they were not? Or were members of that First Congress wrong in your opinion? "

No, it did NOT define them as "natural born Citizens. Read the act carefully. The language used was "Shall Be Considered as" natural born Citizens. Regardless, the congress realizing their error, passed the very same naturalization act again in 1795, striking the "natural born Citizen" language and changing it to "Citizen".

[philman_36]

..."Shall Be Considered as" natural born Citizens.

Meaning the same rights and liberties that a natural born citizen possessed were now possessed by the former alien as well, with the one exception of being elected POTUS.