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To: Dilbert San Diego

This will not be settled until SCOTUS decides. And then only until that case is overturned.

It is CLEAR, that Vattel’s definition of “natural born citizen” was what the framers/founders understood to be the meaning of the term.

BOOK I.
LAW OF NATIONS

ยง 212. Citizens and natives.

“The natives, or natural-born citizens,
are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”

Very concise! Born IN THE COUNTRY of parentS (BOTH) who are citizens.


73 posted on 10/23/2023 8:41:58 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: faucetman

Any term with “natural” in it as an adjective such as “natural born Citizen” refers to natural made and Natural Law, not man-made via man’s Positive Laws such as made by Acts of Congress, but instead by the Laws of Nature and Natural Law. Vattel was the preeminent legal treatise on “Natural Law” during the founding and framing era. See: https://lonang.com/library/reference/vattel-law-of-nations/vatt-119/ The founders and framers used the French edition. See my discussion about that: https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/my-translation-of-a-key-sentence-in-emer-de-vattels-1758-treatise-on-natural-law-in-section-212-des-citoyens-et-naturels/


119 posted on 10/23/2023 10:17:07 AM PDT by CDR Kerchner (natural born Citizen, natural law, Emer de Vattel, naturels, presidential, eligibility, kamalaharris)
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