[EnderWiggins]

"Why would the very people that won their freedom from Britain, use their law as the basis of a new country."

Go back and read the Declaration of Independence. They weren't rebelling against English law. They were rebelling against the Crown's violations of that law.

English common law was brilliant, and they knew it. Why would they toss out the baby with the bathwater?

49 of the 50 US States have formal laws on their books recognizing English common law as the basis of their own. Louisiana is the sole exception.

[DoctorBulldog]

Yeah, I’ve been down this road before. You will have to prove that Blackwell is the source for the “Natural Born” clause in the U.S. Constitution.

After wrestling with this question for years, I am of the opinion that it was based on Vattel’s work and the SCOTUS got it wrong in the Wong decision because they were trying anything they could to get around the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Wouldn’t be the first time the SCOTUS has played politics and won’t be the last.

Here is a link to a well argued case for Vattel:

http://birthers.org/USC/Vattel.html

Yeah, I know, it’s a “birther” site, but it covers many of the same items I have come across in various history books while researching this issue at various libraries.

Cheers