“The immigration act deemed that those born abroad to US citizens parents were considered as natural born Citizens...
Of course the comeback will be the passage was dropped in later versions of the act.”
No, the comeback is simply that it applied to those born OUTSIDE THE USA. It extended NBC status to those born overseas. It did NOT restrict it to those born in the USA of citizen parents, a la Vattel.
“Equating native born to natural born is a recent invention to rationalize the current situation.”
The quotes I provided were all from the early 1800s. To the best of my knowledge, Obama wasn’t born in 1800.
The quotes you provided are trumped by Minor v. Happersett which recognized that the longstanding and exclusive definition of NBC = all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens. The definition was upheld and affirmed by Gray in the WKA decision.