Posted on 08/04/2013 1:59:03 PM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
Once more, you are a F***ing liar.
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After Chemical Class is:
Senior Moral Class
Senior Mathematical Class
Senior Political Class
National Philosophical Class
And finally
“Law Course - Blackstone’s Commentaries and Madison’s Report”
Blackstone was the best book available on Civil/Criminal law at that time. Your noting this is irrelevant to the point. Vattel WAS the textbook at William and Mary for “natural law.” You know, that “natural born” stuff.
And here we may premise, that by the rejection of the sovereignty of the crown of England, not only all the laws of that country by which the dependence of the colonies was secured, but the whole lex prerogativa (or Jura Coronae before mentioned) so far as respected the person of the sovereign and his prerogatives as an individual, was utterly abolished: and, that so far as respected the kingly office, and government, it was either modified, abridged, or annulled, according to the several constitutions and laws of the states, respectively: consequently, that every rule of the common law, and every statute of England, founded on the nature of regal government, in derogation of the natural and unalienable rights of mankind; or, inconsistent with the nature and principles of democratic governments, were absolutely abrogated, repealed, and annulled, by the establishment of such a form of government in the states, respectively. This is a natural and necessary consequence of the revolution, and the correspondent changes in the nature of the governments, unless we could suppose that the laws of England, like those of the Almighty Ruler of the universe, carry with them an intrinsic moral obligation upon all mankind. A supposition too gross and absurd to require refutation.
Yeah. I seem to recall reading somewhere (maybe it was at Woodman’s blog, he wrote tons of stuff about this crap) that Blackstone’s Commentaries was the textbook for law at William and Mary.
I don’t deny that in the early days some schools may have used Vattel’s Law of Nations as the “text” for some courses. What I was referring to was a real, proper TEXT BOOK in the classic sense. That is, a book written and marketed for the express purpose of serving as the dominant source of information (and in many cases, the only source) for a specific formal course of study in Civics or Government, in an American high school or university.
And you pretty much proved the point by producing Vattel’s Law of Nations and crowing about it - even though in the same universities, the “text” for law was Blackstone’s Commentaries, and even though there’s no proof that these universities used the 1797 edition which contained the “natural born citizens” mistranslation for “natives, or indigenes.”
In other words, that was the ONLY thing you could come up with: That some American university did use Vattel’s Law of Nations.
I stand by my statement, having in mind what I meant by “text book.” There is no such real, true, classic TEXT BOOK that was ever written for any United States Civics course, or any US Government course, for high school or university, at any time in the history of the United States.
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