“My POINT was that sometimes they used NBC and sometimes they used NBS”
Which of course raises the question. When they read the Constitution for the first time, how would the Massachusetts’ legislators have interpeted the phrase “natural born Citizen”?
Since they considered them interchangeable terms, they would have believed the meanings to be the same, only applied to US citizens instead of English subjects. That was the point of the WKA review.
Many being lawyers they would have been very familiar with the common law phrase “natural born”. They understood that they were citizens instead of subjects due to the change in system of government.
The point is they wrote the Constitution using the legal phrases they were familiar with. The entire document is full of phrases from British common law.