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 ::If a court ever reaches the merits of this issue, there's a 99.999% chance that the court will hold (as the court should) that a ""natural born citizen"" means someone who is a citizen at birth, regardless of parentage.  But Vattel's view is nevertheless notable, so I don't see the point of an edit-war about merely mentioning Vattel.  I've inserted the page numbers into the footnotes as requested.  "