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What follows, is a bit of information with regards to the Constitutional term "Natural Born Citizen" (specifically) and NOT about the entire makeup, functions, origins and influences that made/make up our form of government, a Constitutional Republic.

Who, or "what" constituted a natural born citizen was well known to the framers. Jay would not have made such a suggestion to the others (Washington & the rest of those in attendance at the Constitutional Convention) unless there was a clear understanding of what that term meant. The definition comes from a source that not only were the framers familiar with, but the founders (many who were both) as well. And yes, even though most could not speak French, most read French (except, notably, Washington who would defer to Jefferson when such interpretation was needed).

 

NBC in the Constitutional drafts:

June 18th, 1787 - Alexander Hamilton suggests that the requirement be added, as: "No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States." Works of Alexander Hamilton (page 407).

July 25, 1787 (~5 weeks later) - John Jay writes a letter to General Washington (president of the Constitutional Convention): "Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen." [the word born is underlined in Jay's letter which signifies the importance of allegiance from birth.] http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28fr00379%29%29:

September 2nd, 1787 George Washington pens a letter to John Jay. The last line reads: "I thank you for the hints contained in your letter"
http://www.consource.org/index.asp?bid=582&fid=600&documentid=71483

September 4th, 1787 (~6 weeks after Jay's letter and just 2 days after Washington wrote back to Jay) - The "Natural Born Citizen" requirement is now found in their drafts. Madison's notes of the Convention
The proposal passed unanimously without debate.

 

Original French version of Vattel's Law of Nations:

Emer de Vattel, Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, vol. 1 (of 2) [1758]

From Chapter XIX, 212 (page 248 of 592):
Title in French: "Des citoyens et naturels"
To English: "Citizens and natural"

French text (about citizens): "Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages."
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To English: "The citizens are the members of the civil society: linked to this society by certain duties and subject to its authority, they participate with equality has its advantages."
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French text (about "natural" born citizens): "Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens"
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To English, gives this: "the natural, or indigenous, are those born in the country, parents who are citizens"

Prior to the Constitution

"This 1758 work by Swiss legal philosopher Emmerich de Vattel is of special importance to scholars of constitutional history and law, for it was read by many of the Founders of the United States of America, and informed their understanding of the principles of law which became established in the Constitution of 1787. Chitty's notes and the appended commentaries by Edward D. Ingraham, used in lectures at William and Mary College, provide a valuable perspective on Vattel's exposition from the viewpoint of American jurists who had adapted those principles to the American legal experience."

Vattel's Law of Nations, built upon "natural law - which has it's roots in ancient Greece, was influenced by Leibniz.
Even Blackstone affirmed the basis of natural law:
"This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original” (1979, 41). In this passage, Blackstone articulates the two claims that constitute the theoretical core of conceptual naturalism: 1) there can be no legally valid standards that conflict with the natural law; and 2) all valid laws derive what force and authority they have from the natural law."

A detailed, historical, etymology of the term "Natural Born Citizen" can be found here: http://www.greschak.com/essays/natborn/index.htm

U S v. ARJONA, 120 U.S. 479 (1887)

Thomas Jefferson (for one example) had the 1758 version as well as a 1775 version in his own library:
Thomas Jefferson's Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order (under a section he titled "Ethics. Law of Nature and Nations."

In AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Thomas Jefferson, he states: "On the 1st of June 1779. I was appointed Governor of the Commonwealth and retired from the legislature. Being elected also one of the Visitors of Wm. & Mary college, a self-electing body, I effected, during my residence in Williamsburg that year, a change in the organization of that institution by abolishing the Grammar school, and the two professorships of Divinity & Oriental languages, and substituting a professorship of Law & Police, one of Anatomy Medicine and Chemistry, and one of Modern languages; and the charter confining us to six professorships, we added the law of Nature & Nations..." This was 8 years prior the the writing of the Constitution! [See the "Law of Nature & Nations" section of his personal library to get an idea of what he included in this curriculum in America's 1st law school].

Note: Vattel, is one of only 10 "footnotes" in Jefferson's Biography, from Yale.

Prior to Jay's famous letter to those in attendance at the Constitutional Convention, we see (one of many exchanges between the founders) a letter from Madison ("father" of the Constitution) to Jay:

"James Madison, as a member of the Continental Congress in 1780, drafted the instructions sent to John Jay, for negotiating a treaty with Spain, which quotes at length from The Law of Nations. Jay complained that this letter, which was probably read by the Spanish government, was not in code, and "Vattel's Law of Nations, which I found quoted in a letter from Congress, is prohibited here.[29]"
From: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness. How the Natural Law concept of G.W. Leibniz Inspired America's Founding Fathers.

After the Constitution

Founder and Historian David Ramsay Defines a Natural Born Citizen in 1789.
David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 to May 8, 1815) was an American physician, patriot, and historian from South Carolina and a delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and 1785-1786. He was the Acting President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He was one of the American Revolution’s first major historians. A contemporary of Washington, Ramsay writes with the knowledge and insights one acquires only by being personally involved in the events of the Founding period.

Ramsay REAFFIRMS the definition a Natural Born Citizen (born in country, to citizen parents (plural)) in 1789 A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789)

The Naturalization Act of 1790, which states (in relevant part) "that the children of citizens [plural] of the United States that might be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, should be considered as natural-born citizens"

Of course, the Act of 1790 was repealed by the Act of 1795 (which did NOT attempt to define or extend the definition for NBC). What the 1st Congress had tried to do in 1790 was to EXTEND the known definition (of born in country to citizen parentS) to those born outside of sovereign territory, to citizen parentS. Of course, they can't do that. Congress (by itself) doesn't have the Constitutional authority to define (or EXTEND) the Constitutional term "Natural Born Citizen." Only a SCOTUS decision on the intent of the framers, or an amendment to the Constitution can do that.

The same definition was referenced in the dicta of many early SCOTUS cases as well...some examples:

"THE VENUS, 12 U.S. (8 Cranch) 253, 289 (1814) (Marshall, C.J. concurring) (cites Vattel’s definition of Natural Born Citizen)
SHANKS V. DUPONT, 28 U.S. 242, 245 (1830) (same definition without citing Vattel)
MINOR V. HAPPERSETT, 88 U.S.162,167-168 ( 1875) (same definition without citing Vattel)
EX PARTE REYNOLDS, 1879, 5 Dill., 394, 402 (same definition and cites Vattel)
UNITED STATES V WARD, 42 F.320 (C.C.S.D. Cal. 1890) (same definition and cites Vattel.)"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17519578/Kerchner-v-Obama-Congress-DOC-34-Plaintiffs-Brief-Opposing-Defendants-Motion-to-Dismiss

The New Englander, Volume 3 (1845) states: "The expression ‘citizen of the United States occurs in the clauses prescribing qualifications for Representatives, for Senators, and for President. In the latter, the term ‘natural born citizen’ is used and excludes all persons owing allegiance by birth to foreign states."
Note: the "New Englander" was NOT a student law review. The first student law review appeared 30 years later, in 1875/76 at the Albany Law School..

John Bingham, "father" of the 14th Amendment, the abolitionist congressman from Ohio who prosecuted Lincoln's assassins, REAFFIRMED the definition known to the framers by saying this:

commenting on Section 1992 said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))"

SCOTUS, in an 1887 case stated:
"Vattel in his Law of Nations, which was first printed at Neuchatel in 1758, and was translated into English and published in England in 1760" U S v. ARJONA, 120 U.S. 479 (1887)

It's interesting to note that (non binding) Senate Resolution 511, which attempted to proclaim that Sen. John McCain was a "Natural Born Citizen" because he was born to citizen parentS, even they referenced the (repealed) Naturalization Act of 1790: "Whereas such limitations would be inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the `natural born Citizen' clause of the Constitution of the United States, as evidenced by the First Congress's own statute defining the term `natural born Citizen'".
Obama, himself, was a signatory of that resolution knowing full well (no doubt) the requirement has always been about 2 citizen parents.

The point is, with the exception of the repealed Act of 1790 which tried to EXTEND the definition, the meaning of the term "Natural Born Citizen" has ALWAYS been about being born within the sovereign territory or jurisdiction of the U.S. to 2 citizen parents (& therefore parents who do NOT owe allegiance to another, foreign, country).

2 posted on 05/12/2010 12:38:10 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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The following gentlemen were involved with the Federal Constitution in some capacity, in the beginning. We know some of them wrote about their experiences as they, and they're writings are well known.

Others are not as well known, but may have written about their experience and may have discussed the term "Natural Born Citizen" and/or Vattel as they were either involved with the Federal Convention, and/or the several state's conventions convened to discuss and ultimately ratify the U.S. Constitution.

They're wives or other family members may also be potential sources if they wrote about their discussions and experiences with these men, related to this issue.

 

Attendee's of the Federal Convention
Also known as the "Constitutional Convention", the "Philadelphia Convention" and the "Grand Convention at Philadelphia" from May 25th to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Connecticut
William. Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman
Oliver Ellsworth (Elsworth)*

Georgia
William Few
Abraham Baldwin
William Houston*
William L. Pierce*

Massachusetts
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Elbridge Gerry*
Caleb Strong*

New Jersey
William Livingston
David Brearly (Brearley)
William Paterson (Patterson)
Jonathan Dayton
William C. Houston*

North Carolina
William. Blount
Richard. Dobbs Spaight
Hugh Williamson
William R. Davie*
Alexander Martin*

South Carolina
John Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler

Virginia
John Blair
James Madison Jr.
George Washington
George Mason*
James McClurg*
Edmund J. Randolph*
George Wythe*

Delaware
George Read
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jacob Broom

Maryland
James McHenry
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Daniel Carroll
Luther Martin*
John F. Mercer*

New Hampshire
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman

New York
Alexander Hamilton
John Lansing, Jr.*
Robert Yates*

Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robert Morris
George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimons (FitzSimons; Fitzsimmons)
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouverneur Morris

Rhode Island
Rhode Island did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

For brief biographies of each of the Founding Fathers who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention, select the names or the states above (clickable links on the source site).
(* indicates delegates who did not sign the Constitution)

 

Attendee's of the conventions of the several states on the ratification of the Federal Constitution.

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution [Elliot's Debates Vol. 1]

Note: The number preceding the state is how the entry is found in Elliot's Debates and NOT necessarily the date order in which the state ratified the Federal Constitution.

If a county was listed in the source, it's generally underlined. Additional sources were used as some of the state conventions attendee's were not listed in Elliot's Debates. A few additional notes were included if readily available from the source.

1. DELAWARE
December 7, 1787.

Sussex County.
* John Ingram,
* John Jones,
* William Moore,
* William Hall,
* Thomas Laws,
* Isaac Cooper,
* Woodman Storkley,
* John Laws,
* Thomas Evans,
* Israel Holland.
Kent County.
* Nicholas Ridgely,
* Richard Smith,
* George Fruitt,
* Richard Bassett,
* James Sykes,
* Allen M'Lean,
* Daniel Cummins, Sen.
* Joseph Barker,
* Edward White,
* George Manlove.
Newcastle County.
* James Latimer, President,
* James Black,
* John James,
* Gunning Bedford, Sen.
* Kensey Johns,
* Thomas Watson,
* Solomon Maxwell,
* Nicholas Way,
* Thomas Duff,
* Gunning Bedford, Jun.

2. PENNSYLVANIA
December 12, 1787.

FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, President.
* George Latimer,
* Benjamin Rush,
* Hilary Baker,
* James Wilson,
* Thomas M'Kean,
* To. Macpherson,
* John Hunn,
* George Gray,
* Samuel Ashmead,
* Enoch Edwards,
* Henry Wynkoop,
* John Barclay,
* Thomas Yardley,
* Abraham Stout,
* Thomas Bull,
* Anthony Wayne,
* William Gibbons,
* Richard Downing,
* Thomas Cheney,
* John Hannum,
* Stephen Chambers,
* Robert Coleman,
* Sebastian Graff,
* John Hubley,
* Jasper Yeates,
* Henry Slagle,
* Thomas Campbell,
* Thomas Hartley,
* David Grier,
* John Black,
* Benjamin Pedan,
* John Arndt,
* Stephen Balliat,
* Joseph Horsefield,
* David Dashler,
* William Wilson,
* John Boyd,
* Thomas Scott,
* John Nevill,
* John Allison,
* Jonathan Roberts,
* John Richards,
* James Morris,
* Timothy Pickering,
* Benjamin Elliot.
Attest. James Campbell, Secretary.

3. NEW JERSEY
December 18, 1787.

JOHN STEVENS, President, and delegate from the county of Hunterdon.
County of Cape May,
* Jesse Hand,
* Jeremiah Eldridge,
* Matthew Willdin.
Hunterdon,
* David Brearly,
* Joshua Corshon.
Morris,
* William Windes,
* William Woodhull,
* John Jacob Faesch.
Cumberland,
* David Potter,
* Jonathan Bowen,
* Eli Elmer.
Sussex,
* Robert Ogden,
* Thomas Anderson,
* Robert Hoops.
Bergen,
* John Fell,
* Peter Zobriskie,
* Cornelius Hennion.
Essex,
* John Chetwood,
* Samuel Hay,
* David Crane.
Middlesex,
* John Neilson,
* John Beatty,
* Benjamin Manning.
Monmouth,
* Elisha Lawrence,
* Samuel Breese,
* William Crawford.
Somerset,
* John Witherspoon,
* Jacob R. Hardenberg,
* Frederick Frelinghuysen.
Burlington,
* Thomas Reynolds,
* Geo. Anderson,
* Joshua M. Wallace.
Gloucester,
* Richard Howell,
* Andrew Hunter,
* Benjamin Whitall.
Salem,
* Whitten Cripps,
* Edmund Wetherby.
Attest. Samuel W. Stockton, Secretary.

4. CONNECTICUT
January 9, 1788.

MATTHEW GRISWOLD, President.
* Jeremiah Wadsworth,
* Jesse Root,
* Isaac Lee,
* Selah Hart,
* Zebulon Peck, Jun.,
* Elisha Pitkin,
* Erastur Wolcott,
* John Watson,
* John Treadwell,
* William Judd,
* Nathaniel Minor,
* Jonathan Sturges,
* Thaddeus Burr,
* Elisha Whittlesey,
* Joseph Moss White,
* Amos Mead,
* Jabez Fitch,
* Nehemiah Beardsley,
* James Potter,
* John Chandler,
* Issac Burnham,
* John Wilder,
* Mark Prindle,
* Jedediah Hubbel,
* Aaron Austin,
* Samuel Canfield,
* Daniel Everitt,
* Hezekiah Fitch,
* Joshua Porter,
* Benjamin Hinma,
* Joseph Mosely,
* Wait Goodrich,
* John Curtiss,
* Asa Barns,
* Stephen Mix Mitchell,
* John Chester,
* Oliver Ellsworth,
* Roger Newberry,
* Roger Sherman,
* Pierpont Edwards,
* Samuel Beach,
* Daniel Holbrook,
* John Holbrook,
* Gideon Buckingham,
* Lewis Mallet, Jun.
* Joseph Hopkins,
* John Welton,
* Richard Law,
* Amasa Learned,
* Samuel Huntington,
* Jedediah Huntington,
* Isaac Huntington,
* Robert Robbins,
* Daniel Foot,
* Eli Hyde,
* Joseph Woodbridge,
* Stephen Billings,
* Andrew Lee,
* William Noyes,
* Joshua Raymond, Jun.,
* Jeremiah Halsey,
* Wheeler Coit,
* Charles Phelps,
* John Beach,
* Hezekiah Rogers,
* Lemuel Sandford,
* William Heron,
* Philip Burr Bradley,
* Nathan Danchy,
* James Davenport,
* John Davenport, Jun.,
* Wm. Samuel Johnson,
* Elisha Mills,
* Eliphalet Dyer,
* Jedediah Elderkin,
* Simeon Smith,
* Hendrick Dow,
* Seth Paine,
* Asa Witter,
* Moses Cleveland,
* Samson Howe,
* William Danielson,
* William Williams,
* James Bradford,
* Joshua Dunlap,
* Daniel Learned,
* Moses Campbell,
* Benjamin Dow,
* Oliver Wolcott,
* Jedediah Strong,
* Moses Hawley,
* Charles Burrall,
* Nathan Hale,
* Daniel Miles,
* Asaph Hall,
* Epaphras Sheldon,
* Eleazer Curtiss,
* John Whittlesey,
* Dan. Nath. Brinsmade,
* Thomas Fenn,
* David Smith,
* Robert M'Cune,
* Daniel Sherman,
* Samuel Orton,
* Asher Miller,
* Samuel H. Parsons,
* Ebenezer White,
* Hezekiah Goodrich,
* Dyer Throop,
* Jabez Chapman,
* Cornelius Higgins,
* Hezekiah Brainard,
* Theophilus Morgan,
* Hezekiah Lane,
* William Hart,
* Samuel Shipman,
* Jeremiah West,
* Samuel Chapman,
* Ichabod Warner,
* Samuel Carver,
* Jeremiah Ripley,
* Ephraim Root,
* John Phelps,
* Isaac Foot,
* Abijah Sessions,
* Caleb Holt,
* Seth Crocker.

5. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
February 6, 1788.

JOHN HANCOCK, President.
WILLIAM CUSHING, Vice-President.
George Richards Minot, Secretary.

The following, were in committe as well, found in the book: Debates and proceedings in the Convention of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, held in the year 1788, and which finally ratified the Constitution of the United States. Printed by authority of Resolves of the legislature, 1856
Authors: Massachusetts. Convention, Bradford Kinney Peirce, Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library
Publisher: W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1856

YEAS -- 187

His Excellency John Hancock, Esq.
Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq.
Hon. Samuel Adams, Esq.
Hon. William Phillips, Esq.
Hon. Caleb Davis, Esq.
Charles Jarvis, Esq.
John Coffin Jones, Esq.
John Winthrop, Esq.
Thomas Dawes, Jr., Esq.
Rev. Samuel Stillman.
Thomas Russell, Esq.
Christopher Gore, Esq.
Hon. William Heath, Esq.
Hon. Increase Sumner, Esq.
James Bowdoin, Jr., Esq.
Ebenezer Wales, Esq.
Rev. Nathaniel Robbins.
Hon. Richard Cranch, Esq.
Rev. Anthony Wibird.
Hon. Cotton Tufts, Esq.
Hon. Benjamin Lincoln, Esq.
Rev. Daniel Shute.
Rev. Joseph Jackson.
Rev. Thomas Thacher.
Fisher Ames, Esq.
Col. William Mcintosh.
Capt. John Baxter, Jr.
Hon. Elijah Dunbar, Esq.
Mr. Thomas Mann.
Mr. George Payson.
Hon. Jabez Fisher, Esq.
Mr. Thomas Jones.
Rev. Phillips Payson.
Mr. Ebenezer Warren.
Richard Manning, Esq.
Edward Pulling, Esq.
Mr. William Gray, Jr.
Mr. Francis Cabot.
Hon. Michael. Farley, Esq.
John Choate, Esq.
Daniel Noyes, Esq.
Col. Jonathan Cogswell.
Hon. Tristram Dalton, Esq.
Enoch Sawyer, Esq.
Ebenezer March, Esq.
Hon. Rufus King, Esq.
Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf, Esq.
Theophilus Parsons, Esq
. Hon. Jonathan Titcomb, Esq.
Hon. George Cabot, Esq.
Mr. Joseph Wood.
Capt. Israel Thorndike.
Isaac Mansfield, Esq.
Jonathan Glover, Esq.
Hon. Azor Orne, Esq.
John Glover, Esq.
Daniel Rogers, Esq.
John Low, Esq.
Capt. William Pearson.
John Carnes, Esq.
Capt. John Burnham.
Mr. William Symmes, Jr.
Bailey Bartlett, Esq.
Capt. Nathaniel Marsh.
Mr. Israel Clark.
Dr. Samuel Nye.
Mr. Enoch Jackman.
Capt. Benjamin Lurvey.
Mr. Willis Patten.
Daniel Thurston, Esq.
Mr. Jacob Herrick.
Mr. Simeon Miller.
Hon. Francis Dana, Esq.
Stephen Dana, Esq.
Hon. Nathaniel Gorham, Esq.
Hon. Joseph Hosmer, Esq.
Hon. Abraham Fuller, Esq.
Capt. Lawson Buckminster.
Benjamin Brown, Esq.
Daniel Whitney, Esq.
Capt. Asahel Wheeler.
Capt. Henjainin Blaney.
Capt. Abraham Bigelow.
Maj. Gen. John Brooks.
Dr. Charles Whitman.
Leonard Williams, Esq.
Hon. Joseph Bradley Varnum, Esq.
Hon. John Pitts, Esq.
Hon. Eleazer Brooks, Esq
William Pynchon, Esq.
Hon. Caleb Strong, Esq.
Mr. Benjamin Sheldon.
Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy.
Brig. Gen. Elisha Porter.
Hon. Noah Goodman, Esq.
Hon. John Hastings, Esq.
John Ingersoll, Esq.
Mr. Ebenezer Janes.
Abner Morgan, Esq.
Capt. David Shepard.
Mr. Jesse Reed.
Nahum Eager, Esq.
Col. Benjamin Bonney.
Maj. Thomas James Douglass.
Mr. Aaron Fisher.
Mr. Edmund Lazell.
Capt. Thompson Maxwell.
Mr. Elihu Colton.
Joshua Thomas, Esq.
Mr. Thomas Davis.
Mr. John Davis.
Hon. William Cushing, Esq.
Hon. Nathan Cushing, Esq.
Hon. Charles Turner, Esq.
Hon. George Partridge, Esq.
Rev. William Shaw.
Daniel Howard, Esq.
Mr. Hezekiah Hooper.
Capt. Elisha Mitchell.
Mr. Daniel Howard, Jr.
Rev. Isaac Backus.
Isaac Thomson, Esq.
Capt. John Turner.
Mr. Josiah Smith.
William Sever, Jr., Esq.
Hon. Joseph dishing, Esq.
Rev. Samuel Niles.
Mr. Frcman Waterman.
Col. Israel Fearing.
Shearjashub Bourn, Esq.
David Thatcher, Esq.
Capt. Jonathan Howes.
Hon. Solomon Freeman, Esq.
Capt. Kimball Clark.
Rev. Levi Whitman.
Capt. Joseph Palmer.
James Williams, Esq.
Hon. Elisha May, Esq.
Capt. Moses Willmarth.
Col. Sylvester Richmond.
Hon. William Baylies, Esq.
Hon. Thomas Durfee, Esq.
Israel Washburn, Esq.
Hon. Walter Spooner, Esq.
Rev. Samuel West.
William Almy.
Nathaniel Barrell, Esq.
Rev. Dr. Moses Hemmenway.
Hon, Nathaniel Wells, Esq.
Thomas Cutts, Esq.
Jacob Bradbury, Esq.
Capt. John Low.
Mr. William Mayhew.
Mr Onrnelins Dunham.
Hon. John Sprague, Esq.
Capt. Seth Newton.
Hon. Samuel Baker, Esq.
Maj. David Wilder.
Mr. Matthew Patrick.
Mr. Josiah Goddard.
Capt. Ephraim Wilder.
John K. Smith, Esq.
Mr. John Fox.
Capt. Joseph McLellan.
David Mitchell, Esq.
Samuel Merrill, Esq.
William Thompson, Esq.
Capt. John Dunlap.
Capt. Isaac Snow.
Mr. Joshua Dyer.
Rev. Samuel Perley.
Thomas Rice, Esq.
Mr. David Sylvester.
Mr. Nathaniel Wyman.
Mr. David Gilmore.
William McCobb, Esq.
Capt. Samuel Grant.
Moses Davis, Esq.
David Fales, Esq.
Dummer Sewall, Esq.
John Ashley, Jr., Esq.
Hon. Elijah Dwight, Esq.
Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Esq
Hon. Jonathan Smith, Esq.
Hon. Thompson J. Skinner, Esq.
Mr. Elisha Carpenter.
Capt. Daniel Taylor

NAYS -- 168

Capt. Jedidiah Southworth.
Nathan Comstock.
Benjamin Randall.
Moses Richardson, Jr.
Rev. Noah Alden.
Hon. Israel Hutchinson, Esq.
Capt. Peter Osgood, Jr.
Dr. Thomas Kittridge.
Capt. Thomas Mighill.
Hon. Aaron Wood, Esq.
Capt. Ebenezer Carlton.
Dr. Marshall Spring.
Capt. Timothy Winn.
William Flint.
Peter Emerson.
Jonas Morse.
Maj. Benjamin Sawin
William Thompson, Esq.
Maj. John Minot.
Capt. Gilbert Dench.
Jonathan Keep.
Dr. Benjamin Morse.
Joseph Sheple, Esq.
Obadiah Sawtell.
Daniel Fisk.
Capt. Daniel Adams.
Capt. John Webber.
Capt. Staples Chamberlin.
Asa Parlin.
Capt. John Harnden.
Newman Scarlett.
Samuel Reed.
Benjamin Adams.
Maj. Hezekiah Broad.
Capt. Jonathan Green.
Phineas Gleazen.
Col. Benjamin Ely.
Capt. John Williston.
Capt. Phinehas Stebbins.
Daniel Cooley.
Benjamin Eastman.
Josiah Allis.
William Bodman.
Samuel Field.
Moses Bascom.
Robert Wilson.
Capt. Consider Arms.
Malachi Maynard.
Capt. Zacheus Crocker.
Moses Severance.
Capt. Asa Fisk.
Phinehas Merrick.
Adam Clark.
Capt. Nathaniel Whitcomb.
Timothy Blair.
Aaron Merrick.
John Hamilton.
Clark Cooley.
John Chamberlin.
Justus Dwight.
Samuel Eddy.
Isaac Pepper.
Capt. John Goldsbury.
Capt. Agrippa Wells.
Ephraim William.
Asa Powers.
Capt Silas Fowler.
John Jennings.
Jonathan Hubbard.
Benjamin Thomas.
Isaac Soul.
Nathaniel Hammond.
Abraham Holmes.
Capt. Francis Shurtliff.
Elijah Bisbee, Jr.
Dr. Thomas Smith.
Thomas Nye.
Col. Nathaniel Leonard.
Aaron Pratt.
Capt. Phanuel Bishop.
Maj. Frederick Drown.
William Winsor, Esq
Christopher Mason.
David Brown.
Hon. Holder Slocum, Esq.
Meletiah Hathaway.
Hon. Abraham White, Esq.
Capt. Ebcnezer Tisdell.
Capt. John Pratt.
Capt. Esaias Preble.
Mark Adams.
James Neal.
Capt. Elijah Thayer.
Dr. Nathaniel Low.
Richard Fox Cutts.
Thomas M. Went worth.
Maj. Samuel Nasson.
Moses Ames.
Jeremiah Emery.
Rev. Pelatiah Tingley.
David Bigelow.
Edward Thompson, Esq.
Daniel Forbes.
Nathaniel Jenks.
Capt. Jeremiah Learned.
Caleb Curtis.
Ezra Mclntier.
David Harwood.
Hon. Amos Singletary, Esq.
Col. Samuel Denny.
James Hathaway.
Asaph Sherman.
Abraham Smith.
Capt. Jonathan Bullard.
Capt. John Black.
Capt. John Woods.
Capt. Benjamin Josselyn.
Capt. Stephen Maynard.
Artemas Brigham.
Capt. Isaac Harrington.
Capt. John Fuller.
Daniel Putnam.
Dr. Samuel Willard.
Josiah Whitney, Esq.
Jonathan Day.
Capt. Thomas Marshall Baker.
Capt. Timothy Parker.
Maj. Martin Kinsley.
Rev. Joseph Davis.
Hon. John Taylor, Esq.
Dr. Joseph Wood.
Jonathan Grout, Esq.
Capt. Samuel Peckham.
John Frye, Esq.
Stephen Holden.
Capt. Joel Fletcher.
Timothy Fuller.
Jacob Willard.
Moses Hale.
Capt. Josiah Wood.
Joseph Stone.
David Stearns.
Jonas Temple
Daniel Ilsley, Esq.
Stephen Longfellow, Jr
William Wedgery.
Capt. David Murray.
Hon. Samuel Thompson, Esq
Jonah Crosby
Zacheus Beal
William Jones, Esq.
Capt. James Carr.
Joshua Bean.
Valentine Rathbun.
Comstock Betts.
Lemuel Collins.
Capt. Jeremiah Pierce.
Ephraim Fitch, Esq.
Maj. Thomas Lusk.
Ebenezer Peirce, Esq.
John Hurlbert.
David Vaughan.
Capt. Ezckiel Herrick.
Capt. Jesse Bradley.
Joshua Lawton.
Zenos Noble.
Timothy Mason.
John Picket, Jr

Note:William Thompson, Esq is listed both as a YEAH and a NAY vote. Unable to determine, from this book, if they are the same person.

6. STATE OF GEORGIA
January 2, 1788.

JOHN WEREAT, President, and delegate for the county of Richmond.
County of Chatham,
* W. Stephens,
* Joseph Habersham.
Effingham,
* Jenhim Davis,
* N. Brownson.
Burke,
* Edward Telfair,
* H. Todd.
Richmond,
* William Few,
* James M'Niel.
Wilkes,
* Geo. Matthews,
* Flor. Sullivan,
* John King.
Liberty,
* James Powell,
* John Elliot,
* James Maxwell.
Glynn,
* George Handley,
* Christopher Hillary,
* J. Milton.
Camden,
* Henry Osborn,
* James Seagrove,
* Jacob Weed.
Washington,
* Jared Irwin,
* John Rutherford,
Greene,
* Robert Christmas,
* Thomas Daniel,
* R. Middleton.

7. MARYLAND April 28, 1788.

GEO. PLATER, President.
* Richard Barnes,
* Charles Chilton,
* N. Lewis Sewall,
* William Tilghman,
* Donaldson Yeates,
* Isaac Perkins,
* John Gale,
* N. Hammond,
* Daniel Sullivan,
* James Shaw,
* Jos. Gilpin,
* H. Hollingsworth,
* John Done,
* Thomas Johnson,
* Thomas S. Lee,
* Richard Potts,
* Abraham Few,
* William Paca,
* William Granger,
* Joseph Wilkinson,
* Charles Graham,
* John Cheslea, Jun.
* W. Smith,
* G. R. Brown,
* J. Parnham,
* Zeph. Turner,
* Michael Jenifer Stone,
* R. Goldsborough, Jun.,
* Edward Lloyd,
* John Stevens,
* George Gale,
* Henry Waggaman,
* John Stewart,
* James Gordon Heron,
* Samuel Evans,
* Fielder Bowie,
* Osb. Sprigg,
* Benjamin Hall,
* George Digges,
* Nicholas Carrole,
* A. C. Hanson,
* James Tilghman,
* John Seney,
* James Hollyday,
* William Hemsley,
* Peter Chaille,
* James Martin,
* William Morris,
* J. Richardson,
* William Richardson,
* Matt. Driver,
* Peter Edmonson,
* James M. Henry,
* John Coulter,
* Thomas Sprigg,
* John Stull,
* Moses Rawlings,
* Henry Shryock,
* Thomas Cramphin,
* Richard Thomas,
* William Deakins, Jun.
* Benj. Edwards.
Attest. Wm. Harwood, Clerk.

8. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA May 23, 1788.

THOMAS PINCKNEY, President.
Attest. John Sandford Dart, Secretary

The following were in committe as well, found at another site.:

Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael, Charleston,
Yeas: His excellency, Governor Thomas Pinckney, did not vote.
Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Gadsden,
C. C. Pinckney, (general,)
Christopher Gadsden, (general—member of Congress of ’65, at New York,)
Edward Rutledge, (governor—one of the Congress of ’76,)
David Ramsay, (Dr.,)
Thomas Heyward, Jun.,(judge—and one of the Congress of ’76,)
Edward Darrell,
Isaac Motte,
John Mathews, (governor,)
Edward Blake,
Thomas Bee, (judge,)
Daniel De Soussure,
Thomas Jones,
John F. Grimke, (judge,)
William Johnson,
John J. Pringle, (attorney-general,)
John Blake,
Daniel Stevens,
Daniel Cannon,
Anthony Toomer,
Hugh Rutledge, (judge,)
John Budd, (Dr.,)
Francis Kinloch,
Thomas Sommersall,
Michael Kalteisen, (captain of fort Johnson,)
Richard Lushington, (colonel,)
Nathaniel Russel,
Josiah Smith,
Lewis Morris,
Edward Lightwood,
John Edwards.

Christ Church.,
Yeas: Hon. Charles Pinckney,
Hon. John Rutledge,
Hon. A. Vanderhorst,
William Read,
Joseph Manigault,
Jacob Read,
Joshua Toomer.

St. John’s, Berkley,
Yeas: Hon. Henry Laurens,
Gen. William Moultrie,
Henry Laurens, Jun.
Nays: Peter Fayssoux,
Keating Simons,
Thomas Walter.
Absent: Francis Marion.

St. Andrew’s.,
Yeas: Glen Drayton,
Hon. Richard Hutson,
Thomas Fuller,
James Ladson,
Ralph Izard, Jun.,
Charles Drayton,
Hon. William Scott.

. St. George’s, Dorchester.,
Yeas: John Glaze,
Morton Waring,
Thomas Warring,
Maj. J. Postell,
William Postell,
Mathias Hutchinson,
John Dawson.

St. Jame’s, Goose Creek.,
Yeas: Hon. Ralph Izard,
Peter Smith,
Hon. Benjamin Smith,
Gabriel Manigault,
William Smith,
J. Parker, Jun.,
J. Deas, Jun.

St. Thomas and St. Dennis.,
Yeas: Hon. John Huger,
Thomas Karwon,
Thomas Screven,
Robert Daniel,
Lewis Fogartie,
Isaac Harleston,
Isaac Parker.

St. Paul’s Parish.,
Yeas: Paul Hamilton,
George Haig,
Joseph Slann,
Roger Parker Saunders,
William Washington, (hero of Eutaw and Cowpens.)
Nays: John Wilson,
Hon. Melcher Garner.

St. Batholomew’s.,
Yeas: Hon. John Lloyd,
John Crosskeys.
Nays: Benjamin Postell,
William Clay Snipes,
O’Brien Smith,
Paul Walter,
Edmund Bellinger.

St. Helena’s.,
Yeas: Hon. John Barnwell,
Hon. John Kean,
Hon. William H. Wigg,
Hon. Robert Barnwell,
Hon. William Elliott,
Hon. James Stuart.

St. Jame’s, Santee.,
Yeas: Isaac Dubose,
Lewis Miles,
Samuel Warren,
Richard Withers,
John Mayrant,
Thomas Horry.
Nay: John Bowman.

Prince George’s, Winyaw.,
Yeas: Hon. Thomas Waties, (judge of C. C. P., and chancellor,)
Samuel Smith,
Cleland Kinloch,
Hon. William Allston,
Absent: Peter Horry.

All Saints’.,
Yeas: Daniel Morral,
Thomas Allston.

Prince Frederick’s.,
Yeas: William Wilson,
Alexander Tweed,
William Frierson,
James Pettigrew.
Nays: Patrick Dollard,
William Read,
J. Burges, Jun.

St. John’s, Colleton County,
Yeas: Thomas Legare,
Richard Muncreef, Jun.,
Hon. Daniel Jenkins,
Hugh Wilson,
Isaac Jenkins,
Ephraim Mikel,
William Smelie.

St. Peter’s,
Yeas: John Fenwick,
Joachin Hartstone,
Seth Stafford,
Rev. Henry Holcom.
Nays: John Chisholm,
John Lewis Bourjin, Jun.
Absent: William Stafford.

Prince William’s,
Yeas: Thomas Hutson,
John M’Pherson,
James Maine,
John A. Cuthbert,
John Lightwood,
John Simmons,
Stephen Devaux

St. Stephen’s,
Yeas: John Palmer,
Hon. Hezekiah Mahams,
Samuel Dubose,
John Peyre.
Absent: Thomas Cooper,
Thomas Palmer.

District Eastward of the Wateree,
Yea: John Chesnut.
Nays: Thomas Sumter,
Andrew Baskins,
John Lowry,
Benjamin Cudworth,
William Massay,
Hugh White,
Thomas Dunlap,
Samuel Dunlap,
John Montgomery.
Absent: S. Boykin

District of Ninety-six,
Yea: Dr. John Harris.
Nays: James Lincoln,
Adam Crain Jones,
Edmond Martin,
Andrew Hamilton,
Joseph Calhoun,
William Butler,
John Bowie,
Hon. John L. Gervais.
Absent: John Ewing Calhoun,
Charles Davenport.

North Side of Saluda,
Yeas: Samuel Earle,
Lemuel J. Allstone,
John Thomas, Jun

South Side of Saluda,
Yeas: John Miller,
William M’Caleb.
Absent: Robert Anderson

District of Saxe-Gotha,
Yea: Hon. Henry Pendleton.
Nays: Hon. Richard Hompton,
J. Culpeper,
William Fitzpatrick,
Llewellen Threewits,
John Threewits,
Wade Hampton

Lower Districts between Broad and Saluda Rivers,
Nays: Hon. Edanus Burke,
J. Lindsay,
Philemon Waters,
Robert Ruthford,
Hon. J. Hampton

Little River District,
Yeas: John Hunter,
Thomas Wadsworth.
Nays: Samuel Saxon,
Joshua Saxon.
Absent: James Mayson.

Upper or Spartan District,
Nays: William Kennedy,
James Jourdon,
Charles Sims,
Thomas Brandon,
Hon. Zacariah Bullock.

District between Broad and Catawba Rivers, Richland County,
Nays: Hon. Thomas Taylor,
William Meyer,
Thomas Howell

Fairfield County,
Nays: James Craig,
Jacob Brown,
John Gray,
John Cook

Chester District,
Nays: Edward Lacy,
Joseph Brown,
William Miles,
James Knox

District called the New Acquisition,
Yea: Rev. Francis Cummins.
Nays: Hon. William Hill,
Robert Patton,
Samuel Watson,
James Martin,
James G. Hunt,
Samuel Lowry,
Andrew Love,
John M’Caw,
Adam Meek,
Abraham Smith.

St. Matthew’s,
Yeas: Hon. William Thompson,
Hon. Paul Warley.
Nay: Hon. John Linton.

Orange,
Yeas: Lewis Lesterjette,
Jacob Rumph,
Donald Bruce.
Absent: Lewis Golsan.

St. David’s,
Yeas: Lemuel Benton,
William Dewitt,
Calvin Spencer,
Samuel Taylor,
R. Brownfield,
Benjamin Hicks, Jun.
Absent: Trist. Thomas.

District between Savannah River, and the North Fork of Edisto,
Yeas: Stephen Smith,
Hon. William Dunbar,
Joseph Vince,
William Robison,
John Collins,
Jonathan Clark.
Absent: William Buford.

9. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE June 21, 1788.

JOHN SULLIVAN, Pres. of the Conv.
JOHN LANGDON, Pres. of the State. (from Portsmouth)[One of most distinguished N.H. citizens. Continental Congress delegate. N.H. rep & speaker of the house. Common pleas court judge. N.H. senate & later president of state. N.H. U.S. senator and first president pro tem of that body. Governor of N.H.].

The following were in committe as well, found in the book: Birth of the Federal constitution: A history of the New Hampshire convention for the investigation, discussion and decision of the federal constitution and of the Old North meeting-house of Concord, in which it was ratified by the ninth state, and thus rendered operative...on...the 21st of June ... by Joseph Burbeen Walker, published by Cupples and Hurd, 1888 (pg's 7-21): Some notes on a few of the more prominant members (from the book).

Portsmouth
John Pickering Esq. [N.H. attorney-general. Leading member of the H.H. convention. Repeatedly member of N.H. legislature, also president of N.H. senate. Governor ex officio. Chief justice of superior court. U.S. district judge.].
Pierce Long, Esq.

Exeter
John Taylor Gilman, Esq.

Londonderry
Col Daniel Runnels,
Archib McMurphy, Esq.

Chester
Joseph Blanchard

Newington
Benjamin Adams, Esq.

Greenland
Dr. Ichabod Weeks

Rye
Nathan Goss

New Castle
Henry Prescutt, Esq.

North Hampton
Rev. Benjamin Thurston

Hampton
Christopher Toppan, Esq.

Hampton Falls & Seabrook
Rev. Samuel Langdon

Stratham
Jon Wiggin

Kensington
Jeremiah Fogg, Esq.

S. Hampton & East Kingstown
Benjamin Clough

Kingstown
Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq.[Signer of the Decl. Of Ind. Chief Justice court of common pleas. Justice & Chief justice of superior court. President N.H. legislature. Govenor of N.H.].

Brentwood
Doc. Thomas Stow Ranney

Epping
Nathaniel Ladd

New Market
Nathaniel Rogers, Esq.

Nottingham
Thomas Bartlett, Esq. [Speaker of N.H. House of Reps after Rev. war, and justice of the court of com. pleas].

Deerfield
Doc. Edmund Chadwick

Northwood, Epsom & Allenstown
Maj. James Gray

Chichester & Pittsfield
Benjamin Sias, Esq.

Canterbury
Col. Jeremiah Clough

Northfield
Charles Glidden

Loudon
Jonathan Smith

Concord
Capt. Benjamin Emery

Pembroke
Samuel Daniels, Esq.

Candia
Stephen Fifield

Raymond & Poplin
Thomas Chase

Hawke & Sandown
Nehemiah Sleeper

Hampstead
John Calfe, Esq. [Secretary of N.H. for both convention for federal constitution & state constitution. Justice of the court of com. pleas for 25 years].

Atkinson & Plastow
Col. Benjamin Stone

Salem
Lt. Thomas Dow

Newtown
Capt. Robert Steward

Wyndham
James Bettan, Esq.

Pelham
Rev. Amos Moody

Dover
Doc. Ezra Green

Durham
Excy. John Sullivan, Esq.

Sommersworth
Moses Carr, Esq.

Rochester
Barnabas Palmer

Barrington
Maj. Samuel Hale

Sandborntown
William Harper, Esq.

Gilmantown
Hon. Joseph Badger

Lee
Capt. Reuben Hill

Madbury
Rev. William Hooper

Merrideth & New Hampton
Col. Eben Smith

Sandwich & Tamworth
Daniel Bedee, Esq.

Moultonboro, Tuftonborough, Wolfboro & Ossipee
Nathaniel Shannon

Barnstead, New Durham & N.D. Gore
Jonathan Chesley

Wakefield, Middletown & Effingham
Nicholas Austin

Conway, Eaton, Burton & Locations
David Page, Esq.

Nottingham West
Eben Cummings

Litchfield
Daniel Bixby

Derryfield
Lt. John Hall

Dunstable
Deac. William Hunt

Merrimac
Timothy Taylor, Esq.

Bedford
Stephen Dole

Goffstown
William Page

Holles
Capt. Daniel Kindrick

Amherst
Joshua Atherton, Esq.

Raby & Mason
Deac. Amos Dakin

New Ipswich
Capt. Charles Barrett

Francestown
Thomas Bixby

Wilton
William Abbott

Lyndeborough, Temple & Peterboro Slip
Deac. John Cragin

Peterboro & Society Land
Maj. Nathan Dix

Hancock, Antrim & Deering
Evan Dow

Hinnekar & Hillsborough
Robert B. Wilkins

New Boston
John Cochran, Esq.

Weare
Johnathan Dow

Hopkinton
Joshua Morss

Dunbarton & Bow
Jacob Green

Salisbury
Col. Ebenezer Webster

Boscawen
Col. Joseph Gerrish

Fishersfield, Sutton & Warner
Nathaniel Bean, Esq.

New London, Andover & Gore
[Edit: None listed]

Charlestown
Benjamin West, Esq.

Alstead
Capt. Oliver Shepherd

Keene
Rev. Aaron Hall

Swanzey
Maj. Elisha Whitcomb

Richmond
Johnathan Gaskill

Jaffrey
Abel Parker

Winchester
Capt. Moses Chamberlain

Westmoreland
Archilaus Temple

Chesterfield
Doc. Solomon Harvey

Rindge
Capt. Othniel Thomas

Walpole
Gen. Benjamin Bellows [son of Col. Benj. Bellows & was President of the electoral college in 1789 & 1797].
Aaron Allen

Claremont
Deac. Matthias Stone

Cornish & Grantham
Gen. Jonathan Chase

Newport & Croyden
John Remmele

Acworth, Lempster, & Marlow
Daniel Grout, Esq.

Wendell & Unity
Moses True

Surry & Gilsom
Col. Jonathan Smith

Stoddard & Washington
Thomas Pinneman

Dublin & Packersfield
Samuel Griffin, Esq.

Marlborough
Jedediah Tainter

Fitz William
Lt. Caleb Winch

Plainfield
Maj. Joseph Kimball

Hinsdale
Uriel Evans

Protectworth, Holderness, Campton & Thornton
Hon. Samuel Livermore

Plymouth, Rumney, & Wentworth
Francis Worster, Esq.

New Chester, Alexandra, & Cockermouth
Thomas Crawford

Enfield, Canaan, Cardigan, Dorchester & Grafton
Jesse Johnson, Esq.

Hanover
Jonathan Freeman, Esq.

Lebanon
Col. Elisha Payne

Lyme & Orford
William Simpson, Esq.

Haverhill, Piermont, Warren, and Coventry
Col. Joseph Hutchins

Lincoln & Franconia
Capt. Isaac Patterson

Bath, Lyman, Landaff, Littleton & Dalton
Maj. Samuel Young

Lancaster, Northumberland, Stratford, Dartmouth, Piercy, Cockburn & Coleburn
Capt. John Weeks.

10. VIRGINIA June 25, 1788.

EDMUND PENDLETON, President
[recommended Chaplin, Rev. Abner Waugh]
Paul Carrington

The following were in committe as well, from the book: The history of the Virginia federal convention of 1788: with some account of eminent Virginians of that era who were members of the body Publisher [Virginia historical] society, 1891:

Accomac
Edmund Custis
George Parker

Albemarle
George Nicholas
Wilson Carv Nicholas

Amelia
John Pride
Edmund Booker

Amherst
William Cabell
Samuel Jordan Cabell

Augusta
Zachariah Johnston
Archibald Stuart

Bedford
John Trigg
Charles Clay

Berkeley
William Darke
Adam Stephen

Botetourt
William Fleming
Martin McFerran

Bourbon
Henry Lee
Notlay Conn

Brunswick
John Jones
Binns Jones

Buckingham
Charles Patteson
David Bell

Campbell
Robert Alexander
Edmund Winston

Caroline
Hon Edmund Pendleton
James Taylor

Charlotte
Thomas Read
Hon Paul Carrington

Charles City
Benjamin Harrison
John Tyler

Chesterfield
David Patterson,
Stephen Pankey, Jr.

Cumberland
Joseph Michaux,
Thomas H. Drew.

Culpeper
French Strother,
Joel Early.

Dinwiddle
Joseph Jones,
William Watkins.

Elizabeth City
Miles King,
Worlich Westwood.

Essex
James Upshaw,
Meriwether Smith.

Fairfax
David Stuart,
Charles Simms.

Fayette
Humphrey Marshall,
John Fowler.

Fauquier
Martin Pickett,
Humphrey Brooke.

Fluvanna
Samuel Richardson,
Joseph Haden.

Frederick
John S. Woodcock,
Alexander White.

Franklin
John Early,
Thomas Arthur.

Gloucester
Warner Lewis,
Thomas Smith.

Goochland
John Guerrant,
William Sampson.

Greenbrier
George Clendenin,
John Stuart.

Greenesville
William Mason,
Daniel Fisher.

Halifax
Isaac Coles,
George Carrington.

Hampshire
Andrew Woodrow,
Ralph Humphreys.

Hanover
Parke Goodall,
John Carter Littlepage.

Harrison
George Jackson,
John Prunty.

Hardy
Isaac Vanmeter,
Abel Seymour.

Henrico
Governor Edmund Randolph,
John Marshall.

Henry
Thomas Cooper,
John Marr.

Isle of Wight
Thomas Pierce,
James Johnson.

James City
Nathaniel Burwell,
Robert Andrews.

Jefferson
Robert Breckenridge,
Rice Bullock.

King and Queen
William Fleet,
John Roane.

King George
Burdet Ashton,
William Thornton.

King William
Holt Richeson,
Benjamin Temple.

Lancaster
James Gordon,
Henry Towles.

Loudoun
Stevens Thomson Mason,
Levin Powell.

Louisa
William Overton Callis,
William White.

Lunenburg
Jonathan Patteson,
Christopher Robertson.

Lincoln
John Logan,
Henry Pawling.

Madison
John Miller,
Green Clay.

Mecklenburg
Samuel Hopkins, Jr.,
Richard Kennon.

Mercer
Thomas Allen,
Alexander Robertson.

Middlesex
Ralph Wormeley, Jr.,
Francis Corbin.

Monongalia
John Evans,
William Mcclerry.

Montgomery
Walter Crockett,
Abraham Trigg.

Nansemond
Willis Riddick,
Solomon Shepherd.

New Kent
William Clayton,
Burwell Bassett.

Nelson
Matthew Walton,
John Steele.

Norfolk
James Webb,
James Taylor.

Northampton
john Stringer,
Littleton Eyre.

Northumberland
Walter Jones,
Thomas Gaskins.

Ohio
Archibald Woods,
Ebenezer Zane.

Orange
James Madison, Jr.,
James Gordon.

Pittsylvania
Robert Williams,
John Wilson.

Powhatan
William Ronald,
Thomas Turpin, Jr.

Prince Edward
Patrick Henry,
Robert Lawson.1"

Prince George
Theodoric Bland,
Edmund Ruffin.

Prince William
William Grayson,
Cuthbert Bullitt.

Princess Anne
Anthony Walke,
Thomas Walke.

Randolph
Benjamin Wilson,
John Wilson.

Richmond
Walker Tomlin,
William Peachy.

Rockbridge
William Mckee,
Andrew Moore.

Rockingham
Thomas Lewis,
Gabriel Jones.

Russell
Thomas Carter,
Henry Dickenson.

Shenandoah
Jacob Rinker,
John Williams.

Southampton
Benjamin Blount,
Samuel Killo.

Spotsylvania
James Monroe,
John Dawson.

Stafford
George Mason,
Andrew Buchanan.

Surry
John Hartwell Cocke,
John Allen.

Sussex
John Howell Briggs,
Thomas Edmunds.

Warwick
Cole Digges,
Richard Cary.

Washington
Samuel Edmiston,
James Montgomery.

Westmoreland
Henry Lee,
Bushrod Washington.

York
Hon. John Blair,
Hon. George Wythe.

Williamsburg
James Innes.

Norfolk Borough
Thomas Matthews.

11. STATE OF NEW YORK July 26, 1788.

GEO. CLINTON, President.
Attested. John M'Kesson, Ab. B. Banker, Secretaries.

The following were in committe as well, found at another site.:

From the City and County of New York.
John Jay,
Richard Morris,
John Sloss Hobart,
Alexander Hamilton,
Robert R. Livingston,
Isaac Roosevelt,
James Duane,
Richard Harrison,
Nicholas Low.

From the City and County of Albany.
Robert Yates,
John Lansing,
Jun.,
Henry Outhoudt,
Peter Vroman,
Israel Thompson,
Anthony Ten Eyck,
Dirck Swart.

From the County of Suffolk.
Henry Scudder,
Jonathan N. Havens,
John Smith,
Thomas Tredwell,
David Hedges.

From the County of Ulster.
Governor Clinton,
John Cantine,
Cor. C. Schoonmaker,
Ebenezer Clark,
James Clinton,
Dirck Wynkoop.

From the County of Queens.
Samuel Jones,
John Schenck,
Nathaniel Lawrence,
Stephen Carman.

From the County of Kings.
Peter Lefferts,
Peter Vandervoort.

From the County of Richmond.
Abraham Bancker,
Gozen Ryerss.

From the County of Westchester.
Lewis Morris,
Philip Livingston,
Richard Hatfield,
Philip Van Courtland,
Thaddeus Crane,
Lott W. Sarls.

From the County of Orange.
John Haring,
Jesse Woodhull,
Henry Wisner,
John Wood.

From the County of Duchess.
Zephaniah Platt,
Melancton Smith,
Jacobus Swartwout,
Jonathan Akins,
Ezra Thompson,
Gilbert Livingston,
John De Witt.

From the County of Montgomery.
William Harper,
Christopher P. Yates,
John Frey,
John Winn,
Volkert Veeder,
Henry Staring.

From the County of Columbia.
Peter Van Ness,
John Bay,
Matthew Adgate.

From the Counties of Washington, and Clinton.
Ichabod Parker,
John Williams,
Albert Baker,
David Hopkins.

12. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA November 21, 1789.

Samuel Johnston, Esq, (note: some sources list his name as "Samuel Johnson") President of the Convention.
J. Hunt, James Taylor, Secretaries.

The following were in committe as well, from Minutes of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention at Fayetteville: November 16, 1789 - November 22, 1789 Volume 22, Pages 36-53

Anson county
The Hon. Samuel Spencer, Esq.
Jesse Gilbert,
Pleasant May,
Thomas Wade,
David Jameson.

Beaufort
John G. Blount,
William Brown,
Richard Grist,
Alderson Ellison,
Silas W. Arnett.

Bertie
John Johnston,
Francis Pugh,
William Johnston Dawson,
David Turner,
David Stone.

Brunswick
Benjamin Smith,
William E. Lord,
William Gause,
John Hall,
Dennis Hawkins.

Bladen
John Cowan,
Duncan Stewart,
Thomas Owen,
Joseph Gaitier,
Thomas Brown.

Burke
Charles M’Dowall,
Joseph M’Dowall,
Joseph M’Dowall, Jun.,
William E. Erwin,
John Carson.

Craven
John Allen,
Richard Nixon,
Joseph Leech,
Thomas Williams.

Cumberland
John Ingram,
John Hay,
William B. Grove,
James Moore,
Robert Adam.

Carteret
John Easton,
Malachi Bell,
John Fulford,
Wallace Styron,
John Wallace.

Currituck
William Ferebee,
Thomas P. Williams,
Samuel Ferebee,
Andrew Duke,
Spence Hall.

Chowan
Stephen Cabarrus,
Charles Johnson,
Lemuel Creecy,
Edmund Blount.

Camden
Isaac Gregory,
Peter Dauge,
Enoch Sawyer,
Henry Abbott,
Charles Grandy.

Caswell
John Wommack,
Robert Dickens,
John Graves,
Robert Payne,
Robert Bowman.

Chatham
Robert Edwards
William Vestall
John Thompson
John Ramsay
James Anderson.

Dobbs
[Edit: None listed]

Duplin
James Pearsall
James Gillespie
Robert Dickson
Lavan Watkins
James Kenan.

Davidson
Charles Gerrard
Joel Rice
Robert Ewing
James C. Mountflorence
William Dobbin.

Edgecombe
Etheldred Phillips
Thomas Blount
Jeremiah Hilliard
Etheldred Gray
William Fort.

Franklin
Henry Hill
Thomas Sherrod
Jordan Hill
William Lancaster
William Christmas.

Guilford
John Hamilton
William Gowdy
Richard D. Caldwell
Daniel Gillespie.

Granville
Elijah Mitchell
Thomas Person
Thornton Yancey
Peter Bennett
Edmund Taylor, Jun.

Gates
David Rice
Joseph Riddick
John Baker.

Greene
John Sevier
Alexander Outlaw
John Allison
George Doherty
James Wilson.

Halifax
Lunsford Long
John B. Ashe
Peter Qualls
John Whitaker
Marmaduke Norfleet.

Hertford
Thomas Wynns
Robert Montgomery
Hardy Murfee
Henry Hill
Henry Baker.

Hyde
John Eborn
James Watson
John Alderson
James Jasper
Michael Peters.

Hawkins
Nathaniel Henderson
James White
John Hunt.

Johnston
Samuel Smith
Hardy Bryan
William Bridgers
William Hackney
Matthias Handy.

Jones
Frederick Hargett
Edward Whitty
John H. Bryan
Jacob Johnston.

Iredell
Adlai Osborn
Adam Brevard
Musentine Matthews
John Nesbitt
David Caldwell.

Lincoln
Joseph Dickson
John Moore
William M’Laine
Robert Alexander
John Caruth.

Moore
William Martin
Thomas Tyson
Donald M’Intosh
Neill M’Leod.

Martin
John Stewart
William Williams
Nathan Mayo.

Mecklenburg
Zachias Wilson
Joseph Douglass
Caleb Phifer
Joseph Graham
James Porter.

Montgomery
William Johnston
James Turner
James Tindall
David Nesbitt
James Crump.

Northampton
John M. Benford
Halcott B. Pride
Samuel Tarver
Robert Peebles
Samuel Peete.

New Hanover
Timothy Bloodworth
John G. Scull
John Huske
John A. Campbell.

Nash
Howell Ellin
Wilson Vick
William S. Marnes
John Bonds
Hardy Griffin.

Onslow
Robert W. Sneed
John Spicer
Daniel Yates
George Mitchell
Edward Ward.

Orange
James Christmass
Alexander Mebane
Thomas H. Perkins
William F. Strudwick
Joseph Hodge.

Pasquotank
Edward Everegain
John Swan
Thomas Banks
Devotion Davis.

Perquimans
His Excellency, Samuel Johnston
John Skinner
Joseph Harvey
Benjamin Perry
Ashbury Sutton.

Pitt
William Blount
Shadrick Allen
James Armstrong
Samuel Simpson
Benjamin Bell.

Rowan
George H. Berger
Bazel Gaither
John Stokes
Maxwell Chambers
Matthew Lock.

Randolph
Zebedee Wood
Reuben Wood
Nathan Stedman.

Richmond
Edward Williams
Alexander Watson
William Robinson
Duncan M’Farland.

Rutherford
William Porter
James Holland
Richard Lewis
William Johnson.

Rockingham
William Bethell
James Gallaway
Isaac Clarke
Abram Phillips
John Dabney.

Robeson
John Willis
Elias Barnes
Neill Brown
John Cade
Sion Alford.

Surry
Joseph Winston
Gideon Edwards
Absalom Bostwick
Edward Lovell
George Houser.

Sullivan
John Rhea
William Nash
John Scott
Joseph Martin.

Sampson
Richard Clinton
James Spiller
James Thompson
Hardy Holmes
William King.

Sumner
Daniel Smith
David Wilson
Samuel Mason
Edward Douglass
John Overton.

Tennessee
John Montgomery
John Drew
Thomas Johnston
William Blount
Benjamin Menees.

Tyrrell
Thomas Stewart
Hugh Williamson
Jeremiah Frazier
Simeon Spruill
Samuel Chesson.

Washington
Landon Carter
Robert Love
John Blair
William Houston
Andrew Green.

Warren
Benjamin Hawkins
Philemon Hawkins
Solomon Green
Wyatt Hawkins
Thomas Christmass.

Wayne
Richard M’Kinnie
Burwell Mooring
David Cogdell
Josiah Jernigan
James Handley.

Wake
Joel Lane
Thomas Hines
Henry Lane
Brittain Sanders
William Hayes.

Wilkes
John Brown
William Lenoir
Joseph Herndon
Benjamin Jones
William Nall.

Town of Salisbury
John Steele.

Edenton
John Mare.

Hillsboro
Samuel Benton.

Newbern
Isaac Guion.

Halifax
William R. Davie.

Wilmington
William N. Hill.

13. RHODE ISLAND May 29, 1790.

DANIEL OWEN, President.
Attest. Daniel Updike, Secretary.

The following were in committe as well, found in the book Rhode Island in the Continental Congress: with the Journal of the convention that adopted the Constitution, 1765-1790: by William Read Staples, Reuben Aldridge Guild, Providence Press Co., 1870.

NORTH KINGSTOWN
William Congdon Esq
Bowen Card Esq

NEWPORT
George Hazard Esq
Henry Marchant Esq
George Champlin Esq
Peleg Clarke Esq
Mr William Tripp
George Sears Esq

PROVIDENCE
Jabez Bowen Esq
Benjamin Bourn Esq
Col William Barton
John I Clark Esq

PORTSMOUTH
Mr Burrington Anthony
Mr Job Durfee
Mr Giles Slocum
Mr Peter Barker

WARWICK
Thomas Rice Esq
Mr Gideon Arnold
Mr Benjamin Arnold Jr
Mr Christopher Greene Jr

WESTERLT
Capt Walter White
George Stillman Esq

NEW SHOREHAM
Edward Hull Esq
Ray Sands Esq

SOUTH KINGSTOWN
Samuel J Potter Esq
Jonathan J Hazard Esq

EAST GREENWICH
Mr Pardon Mawney
Job Comstock Esq

JAMESTOWN
Capt Benjamin Remington
Mr Nicholas Carr

SMITHFIELD
John Sayles Esq
Andrew Waterman Esq

SCITUATE
Capt James Aldrich
Mr Nathan Bates

GLOCESTER
Daniel Owen Esq., President
Stephen Steere, Esq.

CHARLESTOWN
Thomas Hoxsie Esq
Joseph Stanton Esq

WEST GREENWICH
Mr William Matteson
William Nichols Esq

COVENTRY
Benjamin Arnold Esq
Lieut Job Greene

EXETER
Mr Jonathan Reynolds
Capt John Willcox

MIDDLETOWN
Joshua Barker Esq
Mr William Peckham Jr

BRISTOL
William Bradford Esq
Shearjashub Bourne Esq

TIVERTON
Mr Isaac Manchester
Mr Abraham Barker

LITTLE COMPTON
Capt William Ladd
Capt John Davis

WARREN
Mr Benjamin Bosworth
Mr Samuel Pearce
John S Dexter Esq

RICHMOND
James Sheldon Esq
Mr Thomas James

CRANSTON
Peter Stone Esq
Jonathan Sprague Jr Esq

HOPKINTON
Mr John Brown
Col Jesse Maxson

JOHNSTON
Noah Mathewson Esq
Mr William B King

NORTH PROVIDENCE
Elisha Brown Esq
Mr Ezek Esten

BARRINGTON
Col Thomas Allen
Samuel Allen Esq

FOSTER
Capt William Howard
John Williams Esq

CUMBERLAND
Levi Ballon Esq


144 posted on 06/17/2010 12:13:24 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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"FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Constitution Of The United States, 1799. By the House of Delegates, | January i, 1799. | Whereas it is highly expedient that every constitutional barrier should be opposed to the introduction of foreign influence into our national councils . . . Folio (13 by 8), sheets, uncut.
[Annapolis, 1799]

Contains the Resolve of the Maryland House of Delegates relative to a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, requiring all senators and representatives to be natural born citizens, and that none but a natural born citizen shall become Vice-President of the United States.
Printed in script on the first page of a four-page folder."
Pg 211.

Illustrated catalogue of acts and laws of the colony and state of New York and of the other original colonies and states constituting the collection made by Hon. Russell Benedict, justice of the Supreme court of New York
Authors: Russell Benedict, American Art Association 1922 (??)

If you have a FOREIGN father, and you were born with FOREIGN citizenship, wouldn't that constitute "foreign influence?" Of course.

148 posted on 06/17/2010 1:55:35 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Las Vegas Ron; bushpilot1
Hat tip to Las Vegas Ron for finding this:

1771 Edition of the Encyclopedia Brit

225 posted on 08/13/2010 1:38:09 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: bushpilot1
For the record.

America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939
Janis, Mark Weston, William F. Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law, and Visiting Fellow in Law, University of Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957934-1

From Chapter 2:
2 Jefferson, Madison, and Marshall: The Law of Nations and the New Republic

No group of America's leaders has ever been more mindful of the law of nations than were the Founding Fathers. This chapter tells a little of that story. It begins with American perceptions of the law of nations during the Revolution and Confederation (1776-1789), focusing on Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Second, it turns to the importance of the law of nations in the framing of the US Constitution (1787-1789), focusing on James Madison. Third, the chapter explores how the founders relied on international law in early American diplomacy. Finally, it looks to the incorporation of the law of nations in early American judicial practice, particularly the contribution made by John Marshall.
Good find bushpilot1.
226 posted on 08/13/2010 1:48:13 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: LucyT; Fred Nerks; BP2; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; MeekOneGOP; ...
The 1760 English edition of Law of Nations has been found:

Vattel's "The Law of Nations" translated from the French by M. Wattel
London 1760







227 posted on 08/23/2010 4:59:26 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Spaulding; Red Steel; El Gato; LucyT; BP2; bushpilot1; STARWISE; pissant; Fred Nerks; ...
Just months prior to the Declaration of Independence, we see a call from two lawyers in THE publication of the day that the law of nations states that they (the colonies) are discharged of their allegiance to Great Britain because of offenses against it and that they must "appeal to the droit des gens"

If, what appear to be relatively (historically) unknown, lawyers have this knowledge of and reliance upon the Law of Nations, clearly the framers of the Declaration of Independence (& Constitution) did as well.

 

From the Pennsylvania Gazette, March 6 1776.
Messieurs HALL and SELLERS

"All Europe must allow, that while America was in the greatest good humour with her old mother, a scheme was laid to keep up a large standing army in her capital towns, and to tax her at pleasure for the support of it. They see that, from time to time, the most fraudulent and violent measures have been taken to support their entirely unprecedented claim, till at last, drained of their national troops, they have applied for assistance to other nations. By the law of nations , we were discharged from our allegiance the moment the army was posted among us without our consent, or a single farthing taken from us in like manner; either of these being fundamental subversions of the constitutions. It remains entirely with ourselves to have ample justice done to us. We have nothing to do but declare off, and appeal to the droit des gens."


235 posted on 09/08/2010 2:59:57 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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Here we see, John Hancock moderating a committee in 1772 that talks about the law of nations and the natural rights of the colonists being a right to life ; to liberty ; to property (two of the three rights that find their way into the Deceleration of Independence a bit more than 3 years later.)

AT a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, duly warned and assembled in Faneuil Hall according to law, on Friday the 20th of November, 1772, then and there to receive and act upon the report of a committee appointed at a former meeting, on the 2d of the same month, and such other things as might properly come under the consideration of the town; the Honourable JOHN HANCOCK, Esquire, being unanimously chosen Moderation, the Chairman of said committee acquainted him that he was ready to make report, and read the same as follows;
...
Natural rights of the colonists as MEN.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life ; secondly, to liberty ; thirdly, to property ; [Edit: Sounds familiar in parts?] together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intollerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

When men enter into society it is by voluntary consent; and they have a right to demand and insist upon the performance of such conditions, and previous limitation, as from an equitable original compact . Every natural right, not expressly given up, or from the nature of a social compact necessarily ceded, remains.

All positive and civil laws, should conform, as far as possible, to the law of natural reason and equity.

As neither reason requires, nor religion permits, the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God, according to the dictates of his conscience.

" Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty ," in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the law of nations , and all well grounded municipal laws which must have their foundation in the former.


240 posted on 09/09/2010 3:37:20 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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Excerpts from the front page of the Wednesday, December 26, 1849 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, where the 12th President of the U.S., Zachary Taylor, mentions that an Act of Congress in 1818 owes it's existence to the law of nations & George Washington:

 

Continued...

The relavent part from President Zachary Taylor:

So long as the act of Congress of the 20th of April, 1818, which owes its existence to the law of nations and to the policy of Washington himself, shall remain on our statute books, I hold it to be the duty of the Executive faithfully to obey its injunctions.

Regarding the Congressional Act of 1818 that President Taylor was referring to:

An Act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes [a PDF]

257 posted on 09/29/2010 3:32:35 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Spaulding; Red Steel; El Gato; LucyT; BP2; bushpilot1; STARWISE; pissant; Fred Nerks; ...
Yet another quote by Congressman Bingham.

Prior to the, now famous, quote by Bingham:

“every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”
(Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866)).

 

We see that Bingham had reiterated Vattel's definition 4 years earlier!

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens . Gentleman can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.
(Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., 1639 (1862)).

There should be zero question, that the "father" of the 14th Amendment (which concerns citizenship among other things) knew that the framers relied on Vattel's definition for who is a "Natural Born Citizen" and reiterated it multiple times during discussions of citizenship and the 14th Amendment.

268 posted on 10/13/2010 5:19:49 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Spaulding; Red Steel; El Gato; LucyT; BP2; bushpilot1; STARWISE; pissant; Fred Nerks; ...
Was Vattel the source for the creation (by Congress) of the laws on Naturalization too?

The Times, Thursday, Oct 03, 1793; pg. 4; Issue 2796; col A (from America)


273 posted on 11/17/2010 11:30:44 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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Laws and regulations of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia (1837)
351 posted on 04/05/2011 4:01:27 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Well done - thank you.

Never forget, the ‘American Revolution’ was in fact a Civil War of Brits (and others) against Brits (and others). So just why would the creators of the new government permit any Brit (or other) clear access to the pinnacle of our governance?


517 posted on 07/24/2013 8:20:49 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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