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“Vattel’s law of nations definition was root definition of US citizenship & birth in a nation & subject to its laws does not constitute automatic citizenship, one must be born to citizen parent(S), no foreign allegiances allowed. “

WRONG! First, the phrase birthers use to justify their claims was - “Les Naturels ou indigènes font ceux qui font nés dans le pays de Parens Citoyens.”

Natives, not ‘natural-born citizens’ and not ‘citizens’. Vattel, like all non-birther types recognized the two ways to be a citizen - via birth or via naturalization. ALL those who were citizens or subjects at birth were “natives” or “natural-born”.

Vattel notes that in England even children of aliens become “NATURAL-BORN subjects”. And well he should, for that was British common law. Here is Blackstone’s classic exposition in 1765 of the legal meaning of the term from the Commentaries on the Laws of England.
William Blackstone, Commentaries 1: 354 361–62
“Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it…all children, born out of the king’s ligeance [i.e on foreign soil], whose fatherswere natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves, to all intents and purposes, without any exception; unless their said fathers were attainted, or banished beyond sea, for high treason; or were then in the service of a prince at enmity with Great Britain.”

Many of the framers of the Constitution were lawyers, and key ones were English trained, based their understanding and language on English Common Law, and the U. S. Supreme court has said that the Constitution is written in the language of English Common Law (Smith v. Alabama):

The interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is necessarily influenced by the fact that its provisions are framed in the language of the English common law, and are to be read in the light of its history. Smith v. Alabama, 124 U.S. 465.

IT IS THIS UNDERSTANDING OF TERMS, COMBINED WITH THE 14TH AMENDMENT, THAT LED TO THE KIM WONG ARK DECISION, that granted birthright citizenship to ALL those born in the USA even those who are born to foreign residents of the US. Vattel’s definitions are obsolete and irrelevent post 14th amendment.