Very interesting, thanks.
Stonecutters hate de Vattel and any talk of Natural Law.
I wish to further add that the idea of several states joining together to form a Republic could come from no other place than Switzerland, for it was treason to suggest a King could be overthrown anywhere in the world.
If you said such a thing in England, you would be arrested. (Look up Samuel Rutherford)
If you said such a think in France, you would be arrested. You could not voice such an idea anywhere in the 1770s without being regarded as a seditionist.
The idea could *ONLY* have come from Switzerland, which was the only Republic in the world in 1770.
It was treasonous everywhere else.