[allmendream]

Natives or indigenous is what it meant.

Only later, after the writing of the Constitution, was it ‘translated’ as “natural born citizen”.

[Danae]

Your nitpicking is irrelevant. The founders were perfectly capable of reading the original french.

Besides, Vattels defination has been entered into the congressional record on a couple of occasions. A Natural Born Citizen is onw born to TWO parents who are citizens and that child being born upon our soil.

Thats it. End of argument.

Sorry. Next.

[rxsid]

"Natives or indigenous is what it meant.

Only later, after the writing of the Constitution, was it ‘translated’ as “natural born citizen”.

In 1787 Natural and Native were synonymous.

The royal dictionary, french and english, and english and french
Author: A. Boyer
Publisher: T. Osborne, 1764
Original from Ghent University

From: http://books.google.com/books?id=k7c_AAAAcAAJ

 

The royal dictionary English and French and French and English: extracted from the writings of the best authors in both languages
Author: Abel Boyer
Publisher: printed by John Mary Bruyset, 1768
Original from the Complutense University of Madrid

From: http://books.google.com/books?id=6POB0yOidU4C

 

The new royal and universal English dictionary ...: To which is prefixed, a grammar of the English language, Volume 2
Author: J. Johnson
Publisher: Millard, 1763
Original from Columbia University

From: http://books.google.com/books?id=OmtHAAAAYAAJ

 

A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is prefixed, an English grammar. To this ed. are added, a history of the English language
Author: Samuel Johnson
Edition: 3
Published: 1768
Original from: Oxford University

From: http://books.google.com/books?id=bXsCAAAAQAAJ

 

The new spelling dictionary
Author: John Entick
Published: 1780
Original from: University of Lausanne

From: http://books.google.com/books?id=xZUPAAAAQAAJ