NBC was NOT an appeal to European natural law, but to a term used regularly by every legislature that ratified the Constitution. They didnt need to define it because it was already a well known and defined term.
And yet when Chief Justice Marshall wishes to cite the law on Citizenship he turns to Vattel, not Blackstone. So does Justice Washington.
42 posted on 02/04/2012 4:59:59 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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