Do you believe the framers knew the difference between Natural Born and Native Born? Or are you arguing that they mean the same thing????
Well, St. George Tucker, who knew the Framers, served as an officer in the Revolution and then became arguably the foremost law professor and legal commentator of the time used the two terms interchangeably, in both uses excluding anyone outside the definition provided by Vattel as a definition that would exclude any possibility of any allegiance to any other country through having one or both parents citizens of another country at time of birth. The focus of all commentators was on there being no dual allegiance of any kind from such mixed parentage. This was also the view of Story in his study of the Constitution. Do you know of any authority that makes a distinction between the two phrases and, if so, what is the distinction?
Do you believe the framers knew the difference between Natural Born and Native Born?
Well, Vattel did in 1758.
His work said
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.