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But, it does not matter who wrote the book. Whoever wrote that book and whoever wrote that footnote, it contained nothing more than a personal opinion that was supported by any primary sources of law.

The book was the work of the entire Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It was compiled by Samuel Roberts, but it was written with the Supreme Court Judges names prominently as authors of the work contained therein.

Again, the ENTIRE SUPREME COURT of PENNSYLVANIA.

I would say that gives it pretty solid judicial legs. Your response leaves me with the impression that you are dismissing it without actually giving it the consideration which it is due.

Certainly no equivalent law books have been presented which state that the U.S. unequivocally follows English Common law regarding citizens.

In any case, none has ever been presented to me.

This is how that book came to exist.

It does not matter who wrote the book. You cannot take an opinion out of a book that you find and pretend that all of the Founding Fathers and all of the people who ratified our national Constitution are bound by that opinion even if the opinion seems to you somehow relevant. And, in this case, the opinion is clearly just that. There is no primary source in the form of a case or statute to support anything said in that footnote. Whoever wrote that footnote seemed to like the book that Vattel wrote. That does not serve to make that book an amendment to our Constitution. And, it does not mean that everyone had to like the book that Vattel wrote.

You know, I really have trouble believing that you have ever imagined that the Constitution can be amended or properly interpreted based upon a footnote like that. I suspect that you were so desperate in your attempt to deny the reality of two elections that you would have grasped at anything to find a way out of that outcome. Do you really wonder why the Supreme Court did not grab that footnote and run with it? Really?

Just follow the Constitution. The Founding Fathers told you that the President had to be a natural born citizen. That is all they told you about the citizenship requirement. That is all that they wanted to tell you about it. You are just going to have to accept that reality and somehow find a way to survive with a little bit of uncertainty about which Founders believed what about that provision.

Just join me and vote for Ted Cruz. What can go wrong? ;-)