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To: rxsid; El Gato

USSC quoting vattel 1760 edition.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?linkurl=%3C%linkurl%%3E&graphurl=%3C%graphurl%%3E&friend=%3C%20riend%%3E&court=us&vol=120&invol=479


49 posted on 05/12/2010 5:30:23 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1
Even earlier, in The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 253 253 (1814)

They mentioned Vattel, and directly quoted several sections IN particular:

"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights."

"The inhabitants, as distinguished from citizens, are strangers who are permitted to settle and stay in the country. Bound by their residence to the society, they are subject to the laws of the state while they reside there, and they are obliged to defend it because it grants them protection, though they do not participate in all the rights of citizens. They enjoy only the advantages which the laws or custom gives them. The perpetual inhabitants are those who have received the right of perpetual residence. These are a kind of citizens of an inferior order, and are united and subject to the society, without participating in all its advantages."

57 posted on 05/12/2010 10:58:22 AM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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