It isn’t but since the explicit term was used it meant something other than “Native Born Citizen” or “Naturalized Citizen” and that something is found in the English law in which the Founders were schooled and that is the requirement of two citizen parents at the time of birth. Of course, the word “citizen” was not used but “subject”.
And it is true that no founder was a NBC by that standard witch is why they put the 14yrs prior to the creation of the constitution for them to be eligible standard.
Exactly the opposite is true. Blackstone is quite clear that it's the location of the birth that determines natural-born citizenship and not the nationality of the parents.
And it is true that no founder was a NBC by that standard witch is why they put the 14yrs prior to the creation of the constitution for them to be eligible standard.
You need to re-read Article II. That fourteen year requirement is on any presidential candidate regardless of when they were born.
The Founders used the terms natural born and native born interchangeably. The best example is St. George Tucker’s statement.
“That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, where-ever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.”
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a2_1_1s18.html
There is also the statement by Congressman Hillhouse of Connecticut during the 1795 debate over the Naturalization Act, that the children of an alien father would be natural born citizens.
The Founders were natural born just not natural born citizens. Would Obama be natural born if he was born in US and his different natural kind parents were citizens.