“The NBC requirement is to be a U.S. citizen at birth.”That was the requirement Hamilton initially penned. “Born a citizen” IIRC.
Jay’s intervention sparked the change from Hamilton’s terminology to what appears in the final document.
Surely you aren’t saying this is a distinction without a difference.
The letter of John Jay to George Washington was not submitted to the Convention and referred to the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and not the President, and offers no definition of the term natural born citizen. The Constitution nowhere defines the term natural born citizen. In a private letter, the lawyer John Jay used the legal term of art where the non-lawyer Hamilton used plain language. Hamilton can be correctly cited for a Framer's opinion on what the qualifications of the President should be. As the Constitution was undoubtedly written in the language of the English common law, Blackstone's Commentaries on the English Common Law may be cited for the meaning of the term natural born. Natural born in the Constitution has been held to be identical in usage to natural born in the English common law. It most certainly did not mean "two citizen parents" in the English common law.
“...undoubtedly...”
No.
There’s a great deal of doubt.