> Please read the majority decision authored by Chief Justice Livingstone in the SCOTUS Venus Merchentman case of 1814. he incorporated the ENTIRE 212th paragraph from Emmerich De Vatel’s “Law of Nations” in his definition of a natural born citizen. <
Wait a minute. Livingstone used a foreign source as a basis for U.S. law? If some jurist tried that today, most conservatives would go nuts.
Is it too late to impeach Justice Livingstone?
James Madison was still alive in 1814. If SCOTUS had gotten it wrong, Madison would have spoken up as would any of the others.
Democrats NEVER think that it is to late to impeach someone that might impede their agenda. If his ruling ever serves to stymie these ineligible’s ambitions they would probably give him the Oliver Cromwell treatment, exhume him, decapitate the corpse, and put his head on a pike.
I think that he thought it was a well known definitional reference that nearly every one in leadership was at least noddingly familiar with. The founders and framers were well acquainted with Vatel. An overdue New York public library book by over 230 years was once possesed by President Washington.
It was Vatel’s Law of Nations!!!!!