“Yes, Law of Nations is capitalized, meaning our framers were citing a proper name.”
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And so, according to you and those who agree with you, in Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, all of the capitalized words are proper names in the following paragraph?
“Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.”
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Look at all those proper nouns!!! Are they books, do you think, just as you think “Law of Nations” is a reference to a book? Or people, maybe??? There are a multitude of people with the name “William” who might be called “Bill.” I will grant you that. But have you done one single bit of research into how English was written in those days??
In view of the above evidence, you and the others are faced with revising your theory of the meaning of “Law of Nations” in the Constitution or denying reality.
In the latter, you can follow the nutcase who made this dumb theory so agreeable to people: Leo Donofrio.
While I think we could honestly debate the English language of that era the Framers refereed the “Law of Nations” in many of their writings. It seems clear that the reference in the Constitution is that of the one and only book of the Law of Nations.