[Godebert]

"In the period leading up to drafting of the U.S. Constitution, there was no use in English of the term "natural born" where it meant "from like parents." As pointed out earlier on this thread, the first English translation of Vattel using "NBC" (instead of "indigenes") wasn't produced until a decade later."

Incorrect.

English Editions of the Law of Nations (1760,1787,1793,1797)

[CpnHook]

Me: "In the period leading up to drafting of the U.S. Constitution, there was no use in English of the term "natural born" where it meant "from like parents." As pointed out earlier on this thread, the first English translation of Vattel using "NBC" (instead of "indigenes") wasn't produced until a decade later."

You: Incorrect.

English Editions of the Law of Nations (1760,1787,1793,1797)

Nothing in that thread disproves my claim. The two reproductions of section 212 provided -- one from 1787 (Post #99) and one from 1796 (Post #125) -- both read "natives or indigenes." "Natural born citizen" is absent.

And the version you linked on your prior post which contains the phrase "natural born citizen" in section 212 is from the 1797 Edition! (The bit at the outset reading "Preface to the 1797 Edition" should have clued you in.)

So my claim stands.