Ahh, okay. Yes, in Rogers v. Bellei, SCOTUS did uphold the statute. Bellei was stripped of his citizenship.
That whole question wouldn't come up today, because the statute, today, has no residency/citizenship stripping function. The whole case wouldn't come up. Bellei was contesting being stripped of his citizenship.
Well......I have a football game to listen to and will be distracted thankfully for a while..
To sum up, in my view the natural born language was meant to include all those who were not citizens of the 13 colonies at the time but were born on the continent, like the American Indian for example. They had no citizenship and were not citizens at the time of enactment.
Hamilton’s original draft nor the approved amendment language was related to Vattel or anything else.
The original draft language read this way;
“”No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States.”
So simple.....
This left congress to determine who a citizen is. As it should be.
But the final draft muddled the language yet appears to mean exactly the same thing. Yet the term natural Born was used, and I think this was used to include those who currently held no state citizenship yet needed to be legalized.