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To: Lundy_s Lane II
It seems that Vattel was available in English as early as 1759 and a copy was on hand during the writing of the Constitution.

I believe there was an English version as early as 1759 or 1760, which referred to "the natives or indigenes," but did not use the term "natural-born." As far as I am aware, the only legal treatise using the specific term "natural-born" during that period was Blackstone, who defined "natural-born" subjects according to jus soli principles, while recognizing jus sanguinis had been applied to children born outside the realm under various statutes.
345 posted on 10/14/2009 5:07:16 PM PDT by Sibre Fan
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To: Sibre Fan

1759
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/Vattel.html

Isn’t it important to understand how the framers interpreted Natural born Citizen to verify what the words were? Of course anyone could translate from the French and we know how the Chitty version in 1833 translated the natural born section.

Blackstone is writing from an English law perspective correct? So his view point is different from Vattel and from that held by the writers of the Constitution.


361 posted on 10/14/2009 5:35:35 PM PDT by Lundy_s Lane II
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