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.
I’m going to throw my two cents in here: an English translation of Vattel’s book, Law of Nations, was available in 1791-1792. This would have made it available to non-french reading attendees at the creation of the U.S.Constitution.
Sorry. Next.
If it's really the end of the argument this Vattel theory gets thrown out as alien to our legal traditions. No appellate court is going to accept it.
The burden of proof is on you. You're the ones who want new action in this matter.
If you want your argument to have a hearing it's in your interest to keep the discussion going, not to shut it down with snappy one-word sentences.