You don’t have to be there to read their minds, you can read their minds when you read the words “natural born citizen”.
They didn’t fight a war to turn the US back over to the King of England or the King of any other country simply because of their birth.
If you believe the FF were that stupid you are a 100% nut case.
RE: They didn’t fight a war to turn the US back over to the King of England or the King of any other country simply because of their birth.
I used the words LOYALTY and PATRIOTISM. It would not be a stretch to understand that that was their bottom line.
Would a natural born citizen like Benedict Arnold be in the minds of the framers simply because he qualified for it?
Of course not.