There are readings from the past centuries that indicate both parents must be citizens for one to be natural born.
If that was the intent of the authors of the US Constitution, then that’s what it was.
There is a valid logic to it: they did not want anyone with covert loyalties in the office of the presidency. Those born of a parent with a foreign loyalty is reasonably suspect about loyalty.
Rather than ever to have to deal with it, they made the requirement: natural born citizen, i.e., someone with both parents loyal to the US.
>> There are readings from the past centuries that indicate both parents must be citizens for one to be natural born <<
Could you point any out, because the reliance on Vattel by many making that argument would be downright wierd. Why are so many citing a foreign-language, foreign-land reference who has no concept of Natural Law and doesn’t use directly translatable concepts if there’s a better reference?