To: MamaTexan; Abd al-Rahiim
The Venus decision used Vattel because it involved INTERNATIONAL LAW.
277 posted on
05/04/2011 9:31:00 PM PDT by
Mr Rogers
(Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
To: Mr Rogers
My point in citing The Venus is to demonstrate that "natural-born citizen" is not the ONLY acceptable way to translate de Vattel's French. Chief Justice Marshall himself did not use that translation, though it was available to him.
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