[BP2]

The definition used by the Senate is based upon Vattel's Law of Nations. Here's some FACTS about Vattel's book:

-- On Monday, March 10, 1794, during the height of young Republic’s neutrality crisis, the Senate ordered: “That the Secretary purchase Blackstone’s Commentaries, and Vattel’s Law of Nature and Nations, for the use of the Senate.” This purchase order for these first books that the Senate bought was apparently the only books the Senate ordered in the eighteenth century

-- The first American edition was published in New York in 1796 (SEE THAT EDITION BELOW). Vattel’s book, according to Benjamin Franklin as early as 1775, was “continually in the hands of the members of our Congress now sitting.”

[Prodigal Son]

Thanks for posting that. I have heard about this definition by Vattel but this is the first time I have seen it.

[txhurl]

bttt

[John Valentine]

This crucial evidence as to the Framers’ intent is of such supreme importance to this debate that it deserves a posting of its own.

[RegulatorCountry]

Source that cite (it obviously came from somewhere else, since “SEE THAT EDITION BELOW” is left hanging), and then start a thread in Bloggers & Personal. Doesn’t matter where you put it, it’ll show up on the main screen on the “Articles” tab or the “Comments” tab, and will be seen. I say “Bloggers & Personal” so you won’t get flamed for a vanity in News & Activism.

[txhurl]

ping

[scott7278]

Thanks!