[Danae]

You request for citations is ironic, because you are mistaken. No passages from de Vattel were ever "read aloud" during the debates.

Cite your proof of that statement.

[Non-Sequitur]

Cite your proof of that statement.

He's partly right. No quote from Vattel was submitted in any discussion on natural-born citizenship.

Madison Minutes of the Constitutional Convention

[EnderWiggins]

LOL.... once again you display the most transcendent non-familiarity with the most basic rules of argument and debate. The burden of proof is on the affirmative assertion, not the negative.

I have read the debates regarding the citizenship requirements for both President (that was easy, because there was none) and the Congress (actually rather extensive). I have also read the later debates regarding the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. De Vattel was never mentioned once in any of them.

I cannot (by definition) prove that to you. You have to go look and prove it to yourself.

If I am wrong, then it should be a trivial issue for you to show us. You are welcome to add yourself to the long list of Birthers here who are unable to demonstrate a single example of a single framer ever mentioning de Vattel and citizenship in the same breath.