Thus Vattel, in the preliminary chapter to his Treatise on the Law of Nations, says: “Nations or States are bodies politic; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their mutual strength.
Such a society has her affairs and her interests; she deliberates and takes resolutions in common; thus becoming a moral person, who possesses an understanding and a will peculiar to herself.”
Again, in the first chapter of the first book of the Treatise just quoted, the same writer, after repeating his definition of a State, proceeds to remark, that, “from the very design that induces a number of men to form a society, which has its common interests and which is to act in concert, it is necessary that there should be established a public authority, to order and direct what is to be done by each, in relation to the end of the association.
This political authority is the sovereignty.” Again this writer remarks: “The authority of all over each member essentially belongs to the body politic or the State.”
By this same writer it is also said: “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority; they equally participate in its advantages.
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the county, of parents who are citizens. as society cannot perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their parents, and succeed to all their rights.” Again: “I say, to be of the country, it is necessary to be born of a person who is a citizen; for if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
The inhabitants, as distinguished from citizens, are foreigners who are permitted to settle and stay in the country.” (Vattel, Book 1, cap. 19, p. 101.)
Justice Daniel US Supreme Court
And no one gives a flying fuck about Vattel. Why? Because international law does not control US citizenship, nor does Swiss law.
See WKA. Oh, but wait - birthers aren’t smart enough to read paragraphs, let alone pages.
Your quoting an opinion, as best I can tell from the little excerpt, from a concurring opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford - one of the most notorious cases in our nation’s history.
Vattel was cited by the DISSENT in WKA. DISSENT, as in, LOSER. Like birthers. Losers.