Oh, really? Distortion? Here is what the US Supreme Court has said in a 21st century opinion. And some excerpted examples:
The Law of Nations cited on the document are on pages 1, 3, 4, 8, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 61 and 62.
They can not grasp, let alone comprehend that when the Declaration of Independence declared that ALL political bonds were dissolved, that meant the form aka feudal doctrine of perpetual allegiance & jus soli subjectship was also dissolved. If it hadn't been, the founders wouldn't have had the authority of the common law & the law of nations to break from England & the United States would not have been recognized as a Federal Union of Sovereign Political States by the rest of world and the French would not have had the authority of law to come to the aid of the US.
I guess you missed that key phrase ... “AS AN ELEMENT OF COMMON LAW”.
Judges may ONLY rule on the basis of statutes or common law. Nothing else. If they incorporate any ‘law of nations’ that is not in statute or treaty it is ONLY VIA COMMON LAW.
“Oh, really? Distortion?...The Law of Nations cited on the document are on pages 1, 3, 4, 8, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 61 and 62.”
The issue is not whether international law has any validity in the U.S. It is whether Enghlish common law is irrelevant (it isn’t) and what bearing international law has on domestic policy (none).