Put another way: Vattel was esteemed for his work on international law. His direct influence on the Constitution and its content, specifically, on citizenship issues, is zero. The U.S. Constitution is dependent on not one word in Vattel’s treatise.
You who cling to this crazy idea are following the schizophrenic ravings of a madman who impresses you with his writing but has a defective mind. You follow Leo the way obot follow Obama. You are both suckers.
Vattel’s book was the standard reference for the Law of Nations (there was no such thing as “international law”). It is the Law of Nations that governed citizenship matters, particularly regarding dual citizenship, and was a direct influence on the Framers as they built a new nation according to the laws of nature. Vattel’s book, as a standard reference, tells us what those standard Laws of Nations were.
This wasn’t a matter of dispute among learned literate people of the time. Your opinions as an unlearned, aliterate person of another time are simply the schizophrenic ravings as a madman.
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We already have evidence that Laws of Nations was influential in the founding of our nation. It is entirely reasonable to conclude that the definition of NBC comes from a source that was relied upon by the framers unless, of course, you have evidence of some other source for the "Natural Born Citizen" clause? Where do you get your definition from?