The Founders concept of loyalties is the best proof that children of military/diplomatic officers born aboard are indeed Natural born citizens. There would be no divided loyalties in such cases merely because of being born outside the US.
While those concepts apertaining to a King were not relevant to a Republic often a mere substitution is involved replacing King or Kingdom with State. And it is also a fact that Blackstone was the most relevant piece of legal doctrine in the early republic particularly as for as legal theory goes.
That and the fact that it's explicitly called out in the 1790 law.
Too bad they overrode it with the 1795 law.
And it is also a fact that Blackstone was the most relevant piece of legal doctrine in the early republic particularly as for as legal theory goes.
The Founding Fathers were creating a "Novus Ordo Seclorum", just like it say on every dollar bill in your wallet. Blackstone was a reference, not a straightjacket.