[Calpernia]

Natural born citizen defined, ping.

[MHGinTN]

Placemarker for reading in the AM with my mug of tea. Thanks for posting this, Cal.

[meadsjn]

bttt

[freema]

Ping

[B4Ranch]

Thank you for the post.

[Spunky]

Good post. Thanks!

[Non-Sequitur]

If you care to look at the history of U.S. jurisprudence then I suggest that for every reference to Vattel you will find dozens, if not hundreds of references to William Blackstone. Blackstone addresses the issue of natural born citizenship in Book 1, Chapter 10 of his "Commentaries On the Laws of England, titled "Of the People, Whether Aliens, Denizens, or Natives":

"The children of aliens, born here in England, are, generally speaking, natural-born subjects, and entitled to all the privliges of such. In which the constitution of France differs from ours; for there, by their jus albinatus, if a child be born of foreign parents, it is an alien."

[SunkenCiv]

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[TenthAmendmentChampion]

BFL

[Eye of Unk]

This is good, question is has the electoral college decided to adhere to the definitive definition or will they fall for the EASY way out.

[norton]

Whoa!
copied for later reference, Thanks!

[papasmurf]

OCR’d it for you. Thanks for the post. :)

BOOK 1 CHAPTER 19
Of Our Native Country, and Several Things That Relate to It
§ 212 Citizen and Natives
The citizens are the members 0f the civil society bound to this
society by certain duties. and subject to its authority. they equally
participate in its advantage, The natives, or natural born citizen
are those born in the Country of parents who are citizens. As the
society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the
children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition
of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is
supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own
preservation; and it is presumed as matter of course, that each
citizen on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of
becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that
of the children: and these become true citizens merely by their tacit
consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of
discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the
country in which they were born. I say that in order to be of the
country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is
citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only
the place of his birth, and not his Country.

[Sister_T]

Bookmarked for later read.