[OldDeckHand]

"Like this from The New Englander And Yale Law Review, Volume 3 (1845) which states the obvious:"

1845? You're dumber than I thought. It's a good thing that the judiciary stopped issuing opinions in 1846, otherwise someone might question the relevance of the that article. /s

Why don't you try this one, from the Yale Law review, written just a paltry 143 years later.

Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility: Resolving Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty, 97 Yale L.J. 881 (1988).

[Uncle Chip]

Why don't you try this one, from the Yale Law review, written just a paltry 143 years later.

Wow -- a redefinition dating all the way back to 1988??? Surprise!!! Surprise!!! She lost her credibility at this: "The traditional approach has not established the clause's full and precise meaning"

So for all these years no one knew the meaning of the phrase "natural born citizen" until she came along in 1988???

Is that the authority that you choose over historical writings of the authors of the clause and Supreme Court Justices throughout history??? The Founders wrote the clause in 1787 and didn't know what they meant by it and no one did until 1988?? Is that your claim???

[Seizethecarp]

“Why don't you try this one, from the Yale Law review, written just a paltry 143 years later.”

Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility: Resolving Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty, 97 Yale L.J. 881 (1988).

Despite the pedigree and extensive footnotes, a word search and visual scan of the article finds no reference to Vattel and the extensive knowledge and deep respect for Vattel by the founders and particularly no mention in the article of the footnote referencing Vattel in Farrand, one of her primary contemporaneous sources.