bushpilot1 asked me: “How do you explain at least 4 Supreme Court Justices quoting Vattel natural born citizens are born to citizen parents.”
What’s to explain? Lots of losing proposition have had four supreme court justices supporting them. What’s more, many natural-born citizens are born to citizen parents; that’s one of the ways to be born a citizen.
Blade Bryan: “Les Naturels ou indigènes font ceux qui font nés dans le pays de Parens Citoyens.”
“The obvious translation of Naturels is “naturals”..
The opinion of several Supreme Court Justices disagree with your “obvious translation”. An example...
Justice Daniel directly quoted and referenced Vattel, citing chapter 19 and page 101....
” Thus Vattel, in the preliminary chapter to his Treatise on the Law of Nations, says: “.......”
“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 country, of parents who are citizens.”