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To: DaveTesla
The challenge I posed was this:

"Find us a single instance in that “mountain of documents” where a single one of those Founders or Framers quoted de Vattel on the issue of natural born citizenship."

In response you posted Jefferson's "A Bill Declaring Who Shall Be Deemed Citizens of This Commonwealth."

1) In that bill he never mentions de Vattel once.

2) In that bill he offers jus solis citizenhip at birth to "that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth" with no reference to the citizenship of their parents. This directly contradicts de Vattel.

3) In that bill he offers jus sanginis citizenship to the children of either a citizen mother or a citizen father. As such, he completely blows the "two citizen parents" claim out of the water.

In short, that quotation is a disaster for the Birther claim that de Vattel influenced the framers re their view of birth citizenship.
965 posted on 02/17/2010 9:18:59 AM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: EnderWiggins; Las Vegas Ron; Danae; Red Steel; syc1959; BP2; Velveeta
“2) In that bill he offers jus solis citizenhip at birth to “that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth” with no reference to the citizenship of their parents. This directly contradicts de Vattel.”

That's a grandfather clause!
Since you cannot make a law retroactive.
(two years next before the passing of this act)

"3) In that bill he offers jus sanginis citizenship to the children of either a citizen mother or a citizen father. As such, he completely blows the “two citizen parents” claim out of the water."

If the father is DEAD.

Cant you read???

Don't bother me anymore, I will not respond to your anymore especially after you insult to Christians.

I do not suffer fools very well.

967 posted on 02/17/2010 9:37:25 AM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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