[DoodleDawg]

There was only ONE definition of 'natural born Citizen' at the time the Founders wrote the Constitution.

Actually there were more, like William Blackstone's, but you wouldn't accept that anyway.

[Godebert]

You show me where Blackstone defined the term 'natural born Citizen'. I do mean the exact term. Not the British perversion 'natural born Subject'.

We are Citizens..... NOT Subjects to a Sovereign.

[DiogenesLamp]

Actually there were more, like William Blackstone's, but you wouldn't accept that anyway.

You might be unaware of this, but US Citizens were created by the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution. The US Constitution is the THIRD governing document. (It was preceded by the Articles of Confederation.)

I don't believe William Blackstone was much help in writing the Declaration of Independence. That document pretty much turns English common law on it's ear, and it is *THAT* document which created US Citizenship. If you look at the early court decisions, they regard the dividing point between citizen/subject as July 4, 1776.

Again, it was the Declaration of Independence that created the condition we call "US Citizen."