You must have missed the "s" there on citizens....
BTW, that law was repealed in 1795.
“BTW, that law was repealed in 1795.”
Doesn’t matter. You trolls are arguing what the words “natural born citizen” means in the Constitution and that law says exactly what they intended as the law was written by those that wrote the Constitution.
“BTW, that law was repealed in 1795. “
P.S. It also established that Congress gets to regulate who is considered a natural born citizen and Congress does so in USC 8 Section 1401, just as it did in 1790.
The replacement had the same provision relating to birth abroad of citizen parents. The 1795 law was repealed in the early 1800's.
It's called a "naturalization" law too, which suggests that citizenship was conferred by an act of congress (naturalized, as long as the person meets the criteria), rather than "naturally."