Rawle was not a delegate.
Rawle wrote in 1826 “Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.”
Yes, I am quite familiar with Rawle. No man has done more damage to the topic than William Rawle. I used to think Rawle was just mistaken, because he was London trained in Law, and perhaps did not know any better, but I have found what I consider to be good proof that Rawle was lying and deliberately lying.
It took me a long time to wrap my head around why Rawle was saying something that was incorrect, and for which he had been repeatedly corrected by more prominent authorities at the time, including the entire Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. (Which I think they called the High Court of Errors and Appeals" or some such at the time.)
Rawle was wrong. Had been told he was wrong, (Negro Flora v. Joseph Graisberry) yet he still persisted in promulgating his wrong understanding of the law.
Can you guess why Rawle would lie about such a thing?
If you have researched William Rawle, you might actually know the answer to that question.
Rawle’s co-counsel in Negro Flora v. Joseph Graisberry was Jared Ingersoll a Pennsylvania delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Who learned about law at the Middle Temple in London. The same school Rawle attended.Another Middle Temple graduate was Charles Cotesworth Pinckney a South Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention (Pinckney also studied law under William Blackstone).
Another co-counsel in the Negro Flora case was William Lewis. Lewis preceded Rawle as the US Attorney for Pennsylvania.
So he was in good company with Pennsylvania lawyers.
He was also in good company in another case, as the US Attorney in the Henfield case which the jury acquitted. In that one Edmund Randolph (US Attorney General) was co-counsel,Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were all convinced Henfield should be prosecuted.