As soon as you make reference to a “statute” in arguing about the meaning a constitutional provision, I immediately dismiss your argument as bunk. Congress cannot change, alter or even interpret that meaning of the Constitution.
Really? Congress decided for a long time that foreign women who married American men would automatically become US citizens without having to be naturalized. If they hadn't done that, "birthers" would have contested whether Woodrow Wilson or Herbert Hoover could actually become president. By changing the rules on citizenship, Congress arguably moved some cases from one category to another, thus having an effect on what the Constitution meant.