[Lurkinanloomin]

George Washington had a copy of Law of Nations at the Convention.

[ml/nj]

George Washington had a copy of Law of Nations at the Convention.

Really? Was in French or in English?

And maybe he did. I didn't say that none of the Framers knew who Vattel was or what he wrote.

But Vattel's name is nowhere in the Federalist Papers or Madison's Notes on the Debates.

Notwithstanding your claim, the common American usage at the time of the drafting of the Constitution is the most likely meaning. Were a court ever to delve into the meaning of NBC, it is much more likely that they would lean on the Oxford English Dictionary than on Vattel's Le Droit des gens.

ML/NJ

[calenel]

George Washington had a copy of Law of Nations at the Convention.

So, what? Jefferson owned a Koran. Does that mean the Constitution is an Islam-inspired document and we are all Muslims? That's how absurd your argument that Washington had a copy of The Law of Nations is.