[Exmil_UK]

The translation was done in the same century as the constitution was written. I find that more reliable than the whining of members of the political class that are not elibible for POTUS.

Vattel:
§ 217. Children born in the armies of the state.
For the same reasons also, children born out of the country, in the armies of the state, or in the house of its minister at a foreign court, are reputed born in the country; for a citizen who is absent with his family, on the service of the state, but still dependent on it, and subject to its jurisdiction, cannot be considered as having quitted its territory.

If Vattel is accepted as the source of the Natural born citizen requirement, one might argue that Macain is a NBC.

[bushpilot1]

Have you seen this quote?

In 1800, Charles Pinckney, member of the Continental Congress; signatory to the Constitution wrote, “what better way to insure attachment to the Country than to require the President to have his American citizenship through his father and not through a foreign father.”