[RegulatorCountry]

There were quite a number of people residing in the colonies who were born elsewhere at that time. The mid-eighteenth century was a period of large influx from the German-speaking regions of Europe. Among these, very few were Loyalist, not here and not elsewhere in the thirteen colonies, that I'm aware.

Your argument for selfish motivation does not hold water when you consider just how many decades came and went before an actual NBC was elected President, rather than one of the original citizens of this nation who were “grandfathered.”

You realize that the children of the Founders born before the Revolution weren't natural born either, don't you? The “soil” wasn't regarded as having possessed some magical property conveying eligibility to the Presidency before the Presidency ever existed.

The “soil” is the geographic territory of the nation, under the full jurisdiction of it. Mt. Vernon in Virginia was not on the “soil” of the United States in 1760. It was on English soil. That is because the geographic territory was under the jurisdiction of England.

That ceased upon the establishment of a new nation, the United States. At that point, Mt. Vernon became native “soil.”

[Jeff Winston]

You realize that the children of the Founders born before the Revolution weren't natural born either, don't you? The “soil” wasn't regarded as having possessed some magical property conveying eligibility to the Presidency before the Presidency ever existed.

That simply isn't true. I don't think you understood post 833.