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If you can find any textbook or any other kind of book referencing a two citizen parent requirement, I would love to see it.

Seriously? You gotta be kidding? Try this one on for size. (Page 26)

Link:

http://archive.org/stream/digestofselectbr00robe#page/n19/mode/2up

Thank you but I’m looking for a reference that is relevant to what is being discussed here: presidential eligibility under Article II’ Section1. A simple statement like: “In order to assume the office of President, a candidate must be the offspring of two American citizen parents” would suffice nicely.

I’m looking for something succinct and definitive that would counter judicial rulings on eligibility under Article II, Section 1, like this:
Pupura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: “No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers’ position that Mr. Obama is not a “natural born Citizen” due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. … The petitioners’ legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a ‘natural born Citizen’ regardless of the status of his father.” April 10, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88936737/2012-04-10-NJ-Purpura-Moran-v-Obama-Initial-Decision-of-ALJ-Masin-Apuzzo

Hmmm...citing “A digest of select British statutes by Samuel Roberts” to say that the US follows Vattel instead of following the English rule...although no court agrees, not then and not now.

Citing a book that is obviously wrong on the law isn’t very useful. It merely proves that Sam Roberts didn’t pay much attention to the law as used in the courts and Congress.

Lots of property cases involved who was or was not a citizen, and the book you cite completely blew it on the law as it was practiced then and now.