There had to be laws that were fitting to sovereign States as that IS where the sovereignty of the nation lies. In the States & the people of those States. The laws of the Federal govt needed to follow a universal/international law because they were dealing with sovereign nation States. If they hadn’t, the US Constitution would have never been ratified.
One only has to go back to the Declarations of Independence to find this out. It wasn’t one declaration that was made. Each State sent their own formal declaration of independence to England prior to the one signed by all the states & formalized on July 4, 1776. The 1776 declaration was the formal one that bound all 13 colonies together as a Federal Republic, standing beside each other to protect each others sovereignty. At that time, they were truly independent, sovereign nation States with completely independent governments. Each State was a sovereign Republic in its own right upon their individual declaration of independence from Great Britain. The US Constitution is basically a Treaty between the all the sovereign States and the citizens of those States. Natural law & the laws of nations are the laws that have been common to all nations & States since the dawn of time. It is why it is called the “Supreme Law of the Land”.
The July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence was the 1st treaty between the States that “United” them, the Articles of Confederation the 2nd & the US Constitution was the 3rd. And that is why “Treaties” are “Supreme Law”.
The US Constitution is a “Treaty” between the States. And where citizenship is concerned, the ONLY universal element common to ALL Nations & States is “jus sanguinis” combined with “jus soli”.
Born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
In the eyes of our Lord God, it mattered not where one was birthed. But as Nations grew & governments were formed, civil/local laws applied and as Vattel put it:
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens…I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country…
the place of birth produces no change in this particular, and cannot, of itself, furnish any reason for taking from a child what nature has given him; I say “of itself,” for, civil or political laws may, for particular reasons, ordain otherwise. But I suppose that the father has not entirely quitted his country in order to settle elsewhere. If he has fixed his abode in a foreign country, he is become a member of another society, at least as a perpetual inhabitant; and his children will be members of it also
Now, I remind all that Vattel also reminded all that:
For the same reasons also, children born out of the country, in the armies of the state, or in the house of its minister at a foreign court, are reputed born in the country; for a citizen who is absent with his family, on the service of the state, but still dependent on it, and subject to its jurisdiction, cannot be considered as having quitted its territory
And here we find the key to McCain’s eligibility & the definition of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” which is found in the 14th amendment.
Allegiance to one & ONLY ONE according to Nature & Nature's God: “ When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them”
Exodus 20:3 (3rd Commandment) You shall have no other gods before (besides) me
Matthew 6:24 & Luke 16:13 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other.
