The point is, Congress doesn't get to re-write it.
The point of the original article is that the definition of NBC may have allowed parliament (and thus Congress) to define it.
If you follow thru a few links, you get this comment:
“Although the eligibility of native born U.S. citizens has been settled law for more than a century,
there have been legitimate legal issues raised concerning those born outsideof the country to U.S.
citizens. From historical material and case law,it appears that the common understanding of the
term “natural born” in England and in the American colonies in the 1700s may have included
both the strict common law meaning as born in the territory (jus soli), as well as the statutory
laws adopted in England since at least 1350, which included children born abroad to British
fathers (jus sanguinis, the law of descent).
The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term “natural born” citizen would
mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship“by birth” or “at birth,” either by being born
“in” the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born
abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for
U.S. citizenship “at birth.” Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S.
citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an “alien” required to go through the legal
process of “naturalization” to become a U.S. citizen.”
That would be in accord with part of the WKA decision’s discussion on the meaning of NBC. I”m back in school now and need to study for a test tonight, but will try to post more later or tomorrow.