Wait a minute. Are you trying to deny what Madison said??? Or are you just too stupid to understand that EACH state had its own laws on citizenship??
How on Earth can you radical birthers claim that the Founders supported your view, and only your view, and that your view could not be changed by legislation, since your view, and the views of the Frenchman, Vattel, are somehow United States Constitutional Law?
Vattel wasn't a Frenchman. He was Swiss. His works are widely cited by the Supreme Court and by our founders and lawmakers. His own nationality is secondary to the universal principles he wrote about. That's the point of the Constitution in specifying a natural-born citizen requirement for President. The members of Congress, who represent the several states, can be citizens of their respective states under whatever citizenship laws those states prescribe. To be the president of the nation, however, the founders chose a law that is universal to all states and nations, and not subject to the whims of any particular state nor to the whims of common legislation NOR subject to the monarchy to which the founders rebelled against.
Yet you claim such CAN be done by the States, prior to the 14th??
This is why you folks can't win in court. You do not have very good legal minds on your side of this argument.