Messed with? No, the defination has been adjusted a few times since the 1700s. Like most of our laws.
The schools have done an abysmal job of teaching it if you look at how many people around during here do the know.
What? You are totally wrong. Absolutely, totally, wrong.
Rep. John A. Bingham,In the United States House on March 9, 1866 commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act, was
"simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution,that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen."
Same as it ever was.