[Non-Sequitur]

So then just what was “natural born citizen” understood to mean before the 14th Amendment????

I imagine that would depend on what the citizenship laws of the time said. Someone had to be born in the U.S. certainly.

[Uncle Chip]

Well since you cannot find a definition and the Venus Case did provide a definition, then we have to go with that one, right???

[PA-RIVER]

So Non-Seq, you are stating that the Constitution was ammended in practice without first being ammended by consitutional process? Would that not be violating the constition?