I guess the point would be that if Vattel's imaginings about "natural law" led him to conclude that (1) the State has "first claim" on the labor of its citizens such that it can prevent free citizens from trying to escape to another country (§ 74), (2) that taxation should be progressive and based upon the communist "from each according to his abilities" formulation (§ 240), and (3) that government regulation and government price fixing is appropriate (§ 255), then maybe liberty-loving Americans will be reluctant to permit Vattel devotees to shove down their throats their imaginings about what they think Vattel might have imagined about the term "natural born citizen" if only he had ever heard the term.
The only word for this Vattel fetish is crazy. The people of the United States and their electors (who are authorized by our Constitution to resolve disputes about candidate qualifications) are never, ever going to buy any of this Vattel baloney.
I think i’m just going to start skipping your posts like I do with Mr. Rogers mostly. They are like verbal junk food.