>> 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?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=071/llcg071.db&recNum=332
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Read 2nd column, 2nd full paragraph