Show me what you asserted Jeff.
Show me where,
IN THAT TEXT,
as you asserted
it said they were 'natural born citizens'.
Don't rationalize, don't theorize, don't marginalize.....
SHOW ME!!
I never, EVER asserted that those particular people were “natural born citizens.”
If you imagine that I asserted that, then you somehow completely misread my post.
I suggest you go back to the reply I just gave you, and read it slowly and carefully.
It was a full, complete, and entirely accurate reply.
Again, I never claimed that naturalized citizens were natural born citizens. I claimed, accurately, that the Massachusetts legislature repeatedly used the term “natural born citizen(s)” and “natural born subject(s)” in a way that was completely interchangeable and synonymous.
This is a good indication that the two terms meant very very nearly the same thing.
I think you need to go back and stop just glossing over my posts, and read them very carefully word for word and think about them.
I don’t think I’ve been sloppy with my wording, or particularly unclear.