[faucetman]

“It wasn’t until AFTER the US Constitution was written that an American translation decided to translate “indigene” - an English word as well as French - with “NBC”. So that definition was NOT what the Founders had in mind!”

Not only are you incorrect, you’re WRONG!

[Mr Rogers]

I am right. It isn’t open to debate. No version of Vattel addressed NBC until a translation made AFTER the US Constitution inserted it where it didn’t belong. The books still exist so this is a matter of undoubted FACT.

Sine the post-US Constitution translation became the standard translation used in the USA, the wrong idea became commonplace, but it never was right. Vattel never, EVER wrote that NBC required 2 citizen parents.

[woodpusher]

The Swiss Emer de Vattel was dead and buried before the Declaration of Independence, much less the Constitution. During the lifetime of Vattel, no such republican government existed, nor did citizen sovereigns exist. Vattel did not write a single word about them.

Vattel wrote a book on the Law of Nations. The Law of Nations was the archaic term for International Law. International Law is a body of law that grew up by custom and usage between nations. It's only application is between two or more nations. It has no application to the domestic law of any nation.

U.S. citizenship determinations are not made in the Hague.