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To: SatinDoll
And in THOSE translations it was translated as “natives or indigenous”.

Only after the writing of the U.S. Constitution did English translations of Vattel change the translation to “natural born citizens”.

Vattel himself never used that term.

29 posted on 02/17/2011 3:51:47 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

Do you have a copy of the 1792 Law of Nations?


31 posted on 02/17/2011 4:00:09 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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