“In the [constitutional] convention, it was objected that no number of years could properly prepare a foreigner for that place [the presidency]; but as men of other lands had spilled their blood in the cause of the United States, and had assisted at every stage of the formation of their institutions, on the seventh of September, it was unanimously settled that foreign-born residents of fourteen years who should be citizens at the time of the formation of the Constitution are eligible to the office of President.”—George Bancroft, “History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.”—1854
So what? Everyone who was born in the future United States of America before the American Revolutionary War was born
in the jurisdiction of a British or other foreign sovereign. That is precisely why the Founding Fathers had to exempt themselves from the natural born citizen clause saying, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
“Who do you think George Washington would have preferred as his successor, foreign born on the Caribbean Island of Nevis and naturalized citizen Alexander Hamilton or Hamilton’s murderer, natural born citizen and third Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr (who at the urging of Thomas Jefferson was tried for treason but was acquitted)?”
The question is irrelevant, because these men were all formerly subject to the jurisdiction of the British sovereign and were therefore of necessity exempted by the Constitution from the natural born citizen clause. Any person who was not already a citizen of the United States of America at the time of the adoption of the Constitution was made subject to the natural born citizen clause.
The point is when looking for original intent, conservative textualist and originalist judges and justices will look at the exact wording of Article II, Section 1 and they will see that the Framers took no issue with naturalized citizen foreigners becoming president as long as they had lived here for 14 years.
The real fear was newly arrived Europeans coming over and trying to return the new nation to a monarchy.