"Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens"
That's what Vattel wrote. You know, the legal treatise that was read and referenced during the Federal Convention itself.
What does that translate into?
By the way, I'm sure you know that Vattel was "celebrated" as a "genius" in the colonies more than a decade before the Declaration of Independence and more than 2 decades prior to the Constitution was written.
You belittle Law of Nations....you belittle the founders, framers and learned colonists.
I look forward to your translation.
Good luck translating indigenes as “natural born citizen” - which is what a lousy translation did 10 years AFTER the Constitution.
Had the Founders wanted to follow Vattel, they could have required the President to be “indigenous”, but that isn’t what they wrote.
And the French equivalent of NBC, as used in other legal documents, was “sujets naturel” - NOT indigenes!
The Founders used a well known and established legal phrase. You don’t get to change it in favor of Vattel, who never ever used the phrase!
Hey ms. rogers, that should be a piece of cake for you with your legal “mind”(?) or you prefer to stay just as the ms. WKA???