“There was no residency requirement for children born overseas in the Naturalization Act of 1790.”
A person born abroad is born under the jurisdiction of a foreign sovereign, which makes it impossible for the child to be a natural born citizen. The fact that a statutory is necessary for a child born abroad to be eligible to be considered as a natural born citizen is direct evidence the child is not and cannot be a natural born citizen.
“The requirements to be considered a natural born citizen, if born overseas, were having citizen parents and a FATHER who had been a resident in the United States.”
Yes, it is correct “to be considered a natural born citizen” is the direct evidence the child is not a natural born citizen. A natural born citizen does not require a manmade, artificial, and unnatural statutory law to grant the right to acquire U.S. citizenship at birth or additional burdens to retain the same such grant of citizenship at birth. The phrase “to be considered a natural born citizen” recognizes the child is not a natural born citizen and requires an unnatural statutory law to confer certain limited rights of a natural born citizen to a child who is not a natural born citizen.
“In the [constitutional] convention, it was objected that no number of years could properly prepare a foreigner for that place [the presidency]; but as men of other lands had spilled their blood in the cause of the United States, and had assisted at every stage of the formation of their institutions, on the seventh of September, it was unanimously settled that foreign-born residents of fourteen years who should be citizens at the time of the formation of the Constitution are eligible to the office of President.”—George Bancroft, “History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.”—1854
Who do you think George Washington would have preferred as his successor, foreign born on the Caribbean Island of Nevis and naturalized citizen Alexander Hamilton or Hamilton’s murderer, natural born citizen and third Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr (who at the urging of Thomas Jefferson was tried for treason but was acquitted)?