[Starstruck]

Natural Born Citizen is an axiomatic extension of the founding doctrine of the US. It's called "Natural Law", and it was a "thing" in the last half of the 18th century. It was a very big "thing" back then.

And if the 1790 act chose to give a description of what a NBC was and subsequent acts never chose to rescind that definition I will go with the precedent.

[DiogenesLamp]

And if the 1790 act chose to give a description of what a NBC was and subsequent acts never chose to rescind that definition I will go with the precedent.

The 1790 act did not give a description of what a Natural Born Citizen was. It simply said that those born in Foreign countries to an American Father would be "considered as natural born citizens. "

It means Adopted Children would be treated as if they were blood offspring. It doesn't mean that they were.