“Vattel’s Law of Nations is THE reference to Natural Born Citizen in the Constitution.”
No, not even the French pay any attention to Vattel.
Vattel is just a private guy who wrote a private book ABOUT MONARCHY!
Have you read Vattel?
I have.
Vattel is about MONARCHIES. Vattel says that the same man can be head of many countries at the same time.
Doesn’t that just blow your mind?
In the Venus Merchantman case of 1814, the SCOTUS, decided by members of the founding generation, lifted the entire 212th paragraph from Vattel’s Law of Nations to define Natural Born Citizen. Justice Livingstone quotes him as he wrote for the majority in that case. Vattel has been quoted in dozens of federal appellate decisions.
Your side will lose badly unless the court finds some sorta natural born citizen “penumbras and emanations” hiding between the pages of the constitution to support Cruz. (or Obama)