[DoodleDawg]

There was one such reference, a well know and respected legal treatise, that they read from and used during their debates while crafting the Constitution at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and it defined a natural born Citizen.

Yeah. Well if that was the one accepted definition of natural-born citizen then why were people like Rawle and Madison saying the opposite? See reply #114.

[DiogenesLamp]

Yeah. Well if that was the one accepted definition of natural-born citizen then why were people like Rawle and Madison saying the opposite? See reply #114.

Rawle was deliberately lying and Madison was shaving the truth because he wanted William Smith seated. Madison clearly did not believe his own rhetoric as demonstrated by his treatment of James McClure being held in French Custody in the run up to the War of 1812.