[thackney]

Sections 1 and 2 of that act defined what was required to become a naturalized citizen of the US.

Section 3 defines who that process does not apply, they are already citizens by the conditions of their birth.

[GBA]

So...you're saying that such a person would be simply a "citizen" rather than a "natural born citizen", which is the status specified in the Presidential eligibility requirement, which corrects the mistake of 1790?

That would make sense. While all are citizens, not all are natural born citizens.

The natural born form is better understood as an exclusive, pure kind of thing rather than such a loose standard or there would be no point of making any citizenship distinction or reason to mention "natural born citizen" at all.

Moreover, both the 1790 and the 1795 definitions highlight the citizenship status of the father at time of the child's birth and a foreign father cancels the American at birth citizenship thing altogether.

So much for anchor baby citizenship, too.