[Mr Rogers]

“Who knew, except you, that the Constitution was written in the 1740’s, 10 years before Vattel published the “Law of Nations?””

The Constitution was written in 1787. No translation of Vattel at the time used ‘natural born citizen’. That incorrect translation first appeared in 1797 - 10 years AFTER the Constitution was written.

As for the original intent, it helps to know that NBC was a legal term, widely debated in the century prior to the Constitution in its English form ‘natural born subject’. Any lawyer at the time the Constitution was written would be familiar with the term and its meaning - which INCLUDED the children of aliens.

[AmericanVictory]

Wrong on all counts. Many of the founders, John Jay, for example, and Benjamin Franklin, were adept in French and knew perfectly well what Vattel meant by indigenes. Others, like Washington, who were less adept in French, looked to them. Your assertion at the end of your piece has no foundation in the actual facts of the debate, where Vattel, whose first English translation appeared in the 1750's, was discussed often and sometimes at length along with Locke and others. Again, your authority does not stack up well against the likes of John Marshall and Story, who directly disagreed with what you say in well-known opinions.