[odawg]

I have no clue what you are talking about. I did NOT leave out the “salient” clause. Go look at my post again (or maybe you pinged the wrong person).

My point was that the Naturalization Act of 1790 defines what the framers meant by “natural born citizen” — which is a person whose parents are citizens of the United States. The clause you cite, and which I also included, seems to be fairly straight forward. I cannot see how anyone can not understand it. It bolsters the definition I mentioned.

[DiogenesLamp]

You are right. I feel like a fool. I am wrong, you are correct.

I just have a bad habit of launching into attack mode when certain key-words are employed. One of them is "naturalization act of 1790."

My apologies.