Courts say nobody has standing to raise the issue. Pathetic. I've known of Vattel for some time, but I'm beginning to wonder if the lack of 'standing' is due to the fact Americans have been fooled into believing they are citizens of the United States instead of being citizens of the American States....or State citizens.
§ 1218. The inhabitants enjoy all their civil, religious, and political rights. They live substantially under the same laws, as at the time of the cession, such changes only having been made, as have been devised, and sought by themselves. They are not indeed citizens of any state, entitled to the privileges of such; but they are citizens of the United States. They have no immediate representatives in congress.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution
A State citzen would have standing, a federal 'US' citizen would not.
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04/24/2010 8:05:14 AM PDT by
MamaTexan
(I am not a administrative, corporate, collective, legal, political or public entity or ~person~)
Many thanks for that link, MT.
From recent experience, I can tell you that not much has changed in the past 312 years! ;^)
It is not improbable, that an occurrence, at the very close of the revolutionary war, had a great effect in introducing this provision into the constitution. At the period alluded to, the congress, then sitting at Philadelphia, was surrounded and insulted by a small, but insolent body of mutineers of the continental army. Congress applied to the executive authority of Pennsylvania for defence; but, under the ill-conceived constitution of the state at that time, the executive power was vested in a council consisting of thirteen members; and they possessed, or exhibited so little energy, and such apparent intimidation, that congress indignantly removed to New Jersey, whose inhabitants welcomed them with promises of defending them. Congress remained for some time at Princeton without being again insulted, till, for the sake of greater convenience, they adjourned to Annapolis. The general dissatisfaction with the proceedings of Pennsylvania, and the degrading spectacle of a fugitive congress, were sufficiently striking to produce this remedy.
Those "mutineers" have morphed into coffee-drinking obamabots!