An owned person could never be considered free under the 1858 understanding of the Constitution but for an amendment passed in 1865.
If you are pointing out that we have never amended the "natural born citizen" requirement for the Presidency, you are correct.
Sorry for the hyperbole, but your point is?
Self evident, I thought. How can a person meet the requirements set in 1787 through a law passed in 1952 which substantially alters them? Only an amendment to the constitution can change the requirements. You can't do it through a "backdoor" passage of a law.
Our immigration policies and policies governing acquisition of citizenship have been determined by statute since almost the beginning.
That's fine for immigration, but it has no effect on
PRESIDENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS. Those can only be changed through amendment, and no, redefining the meaning of words does not work either. That is a just a
trick, and one which should not fool people of normal intelligence.