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To: DoodleDawg

You can start with the works of Emmerich de Vattel on the Law of Nations, referenced frequently by the founding fathers, and in whose work the phrase “natural born citizen” is actually found.

https://nobarack08.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/vattels-law-of-nations-and-the-founding-fathers/


53 posted on 01/11/2016 5:30:26 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
You can start with the works of Emmerich de Vattel on the Law of Nations, referenced frequently by the founding fathers, and in whose work the phrase "natural born citizen" is actually found.

And we can also go to Blackstone's Commentaries, also well known to the Founding Fathers, and find an entirely different definition of natural-born citizen.

73 posted on 01/11/2016 5:51:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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