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The early U.S. Supreme Court used Vattel for its some of its decisions as the federal court system over time established U.S. federal Common Law, which is the decisions of the federal courts. Some have said Vattel was the most cited treatise of its kind in the first 50 years of our nation's history. It was required study for the course on Constitutional Law at the university Thomas Jefferson founded. See this from an 1814 decision by SCOTUS. "Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands ... " See the Venus (1814) U.S. Supreme Court decision: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12/253 Scan that case and see how many times Vattel is mentioned therein. And this is what the best English translation of Vattel's original French treatise on "natural born Citizen" per Principles of Natural Law: https://lonang.com/library/reference/vattel-law-of-nations/vatt-119/

And before replying, do see and read my article and analysis of Vattel's original statement in French as to who is a "natural born Citizen" and whatever words in the early English translation were used, the rest of said sentence stated exactly what was meant by those words in the very same sentence. A word as understood it to mean out of the full context of the whole sentence by Vattel cannot be changed to mean something that Vattel said it meant when he wrote those words, and they were translated, back in the 1758/1797 time frame. Remember the founders and framers had access to both the French and the English versions, especially the newest 1775 French edition. And French was the diplomatic language of the day. See: https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/my-translation-of-a-key-sentence-in-emer-de-vattels-1758-treatise-on-natural-law-in-section-212-des-citoyens-et-naturels/

See this image for the best French edition transcription and best English translations for Vattel's (1758/1797) treatise on Principles of Natural Law. See what he said about "Des citoyens et naturels". Then see my translation piece on that and if you want, look up the word "naturels" from an online French translation service and see what that word translates to.