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To: Mr Rogers

Many of the Framers, Franklin among them, were completely fluent in French. Date of translation does not apply!


222 posted on 09/29/2011 1:51:41 PM PDT by NJ_Tom (I don't worship the State; I don't worship the Environment - I only worship God.)
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To: NJ_Tom
Many of the Framers, Franklin among them, were completely fluent in French. Date of translation does not apply!

A point so many silly twits simply cannot comprehend. I suppose they cannot conceive of the founders having a talent which they do not possess.

232 posted on 09/29/2011 2:03:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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Vattel did not use the French phrase for “natural born citizen”. The word translated thus 10 years after the Constitution was “indigenes”, which has an English counterpart: indigenous.


237 posted on 09/29/2011 2:07:40 PM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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