“The Constitution doesn’t define ANY word or phrase because every word and phrase had a commonly accepted meaning.”
And the common use of NBC at the time includes those born abroad to American citizens.
No it did not. That is the point of reference to Vattel. The English common law at that time had been changed because the King wanted explorers in the colonies and he wanted them to remain his servants. He passed a series of laws to allow the children of those explorers to remain English Natural Born Citizens. Those laws were very specific to that situation and were written precisely because the meaning of the term NBC at the time was born in the country to a citizen father, since the mother’s citizenship followed the father’s.
True.
But one must remember that at the time European cultures were paternalistic societies and that it was understood that citizenship was passed down as was all things from the father to the child.
At the time a child whose father died was legally an orphan.