Actually the framers didn’t think they needed to define “Natural Born Citizen/Sovereign”. Of the 3 books George Washington stole from the NY Public Library, one was The Laws of Nations” Written by a Frenchman, the upshot understanding of the time of the writing of the constitution was that Sovereignty/Citizenship flowed only by the nationality of the father, regardless of place of birth. Thus a natural born British dad, who became a French citizen, could have a natural born French child in Canada. Its all about allegiance. The intent of the framers was to prevent a president with duel allegiances from becoming president. I’ve written a few treatise here on the subject with English translations from the French since I don’t read French.
Absolutely. Vattel was all about jus sanguinis, and so were the Framers.
This has been totally mangled by 19th century jurisprudence, resulting finally in the phenomenon known as anchor babies.
It’s a shame and some of the posters on this thread who are appalled by anchor babies will defend with all their strength the jus solis based jurisprudence that created them. Some, even to the point of reading things into the Constitution that just aren’t there.