[Technical Editor]

Hamilton was not referring to a particular book. He was referring to the broad area of international law as it was commonly referred to in the colonies. You are making the novice's error of looking at the words, and because they are capitalized, thinking they are a title of a written work. No reputable scholar makes this fundamental error. Look at a printed version of the Constitution that retains the original text as it was written. You will find many words capitalized, because that was the style of the day. Your conclusions are faulty, and I would advise you to stop reading the writings of psychologically unbalanced people who advance this ridiculously uneducated theory.

[DavidFarrar]

As you say, Hamilton, as well as most of the other signers of the U.S. Constitution, were perfectly aware of Emmerich de Vattel's The Law of Nations. Indeed, it offered the very model of consitiutional law the colonies were seeking. Therefore, according to Vattel, a natural born citizen was a person born of two subjects (plural) of the crown.

ex animo

davidfarrar