“as distinguished from foreigners and aliens”
But persons born on U.S. soil are not aliens, as
“The definition of NBC as offered by the SCOTUS in Minor v. Happersett is self-limiting”
Says who? Show me the part where it says persons born on U.S. soil to citizen parents and *only* such persons are NBCs. Or, failing that, show me where it says native born citizens are not NBCs. You can’t, because it doesn’t, because that was not at issue. Just so happens that native born citizens are also natural born citizens, because there is no such thing as a citizen from birth who is not a natural born citizen, since to be a natural born citizen means to be a citizen from birth.
They are aliens if they are NOT born to citizen parents. That what the "distinguished from foreigners and aliens" phrase means. That's what makes it self-limiting. Under the Treaty of 1783, people born in this country of British parents were British subjects, not U.S. citizens. Those born to U.S. citizens in this country were natural-born citizens.