[Non-Sequitur]

Nobody has even implied that they used Vattels words verbatem. It was a reference text. The constitution in its final form is what it is. The text is clear and unambiguous. Accept it.

Then where did the idea that a natural-born citizen was one with a U.S. citizen father come from if not Vattel?

[etraveler13]

Oh, gee-whiz...perhaps the minds of our Founding Fathers???

C’mon N-S....your smarter than these questions....