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To: Mr Rogers; Seizethecarp

<> Vattel had one sentence, and it didn’t translate as ‘natural born citizen’ until AFTER the Constitution was written. From the French, it still does not.<>

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And you are wrong again —


356 posted on 05/02/2010 2:22:00 PM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip

I specified how it was translated in early English editions, and quoted the French with an Internet translation. And in the French, it does not say “natural born citizen”...nor is it meant as a legal dictionary.


359 posted on 05/02/2010 2:27:41 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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