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Vattel is the 30th of 37 writers cited by the Founders -- at least according to one scholar writing way back in 1984, long before Obama. Source

So how does Vattel -- less cited than Pufendorf or Grotius, Hobbes or Rousseau, and far less cited than Blackstone or Coke -- all of a sudden end up being the one and only authoritative source for the Founders' thinking about citizenship?

[truth_seeker]

“So how does Vattel — less cited than Pufendorf or Grotius, Hobbes or Rousseau, and far less cited than Blackstone or Coke — all of a sudden end up being the one and only authoritative source for the Founders’ thinking about citizenship? “

Because it gives the desired result.