I hate repeating my self multiple times. So, you agree with Vattel on the primacy of citizenship by family descent, but you insist on maintaining your 18th century insistence on patrilineage. How quaint of you.
Do you also insist that wives automatically follow the citizenship of their husbands? For you cannot have it both ways. You can't live with one foot in the 21st century and the other firmly planted in 1787. With the abandonment of of one came the abandonment of the other. That's why today citizenship by descent can flow from either parent and do so quite 'naturally'.
John, I could pull out all my archived NBC data and arguments from years past, and could go at this for days, but why? To try and convince someone who’s determined to support his chosen candidate, even though it means having to turn his back on centuries of precedent and the clear intent of the Framers?
No thanks. Assuage your conscience in whatever way suits you.