Every one of those individuals where born before the birth of the United States and in every case what was done specific to each was the same as what was done to the population as a whole with the enactment of the constitution, making all who where present at the time of the enactment, Natural Born Citizens.
Some of these came to America between the declaration of independence and the surrender of the British. Some where citizens of countries other than Briton. All of these where corrections and redress of the confusion resulting from the revolution.
Your argument doesn’t fly Mr Rogers.
“Your argument doesn’t fly Mr Rogers.”
Actually, you completely missed the point of the argument. My POINT was that sometimes they used NBC and sometimes they used NBS - which only makes sense if NBC = NBS.
The terms were interchangeable. In the early years, it depended on the whim of the legislature if they said new citizens had rights equal to NBS or NBC.
All of these new citizens were being naturalized, so none of them actually WERE NBCs.