WOW - one time. That prove beyond doubt that the framers included that term because it was in Vattel’s book. LOL. I’m being sarcastic here Mama. Too bad no one agrees with you. Vattel had lots of ideas we should have used. Check out this:
http://badfiction.typepad.com/badfiction/de-vattels-other-ideas.html.
“I speak of the freedom of philosophical discussion, which is the soul of the republic of letters. … I know that liberty has its proper bounds — that a wise government ought to have an eye to the press, and not to allow the publication of scandalous productions, which attack morality, government, or the established religion.”
And of course my personal favorite:
“… A nation cannot preserve and perpetuate itself, except by propagation. A nation of men has, therefore, a right to procure women, who are absolutely necessary to its preservation; and if its neighbours, who have a redundancy of females, refuse to give some of them in marriage to those men, the latter may justly have recourse to force.”
Well, MamaTexan, still respect this man?
You 'complain' you can't find something, and when it's shown, you ridicule.
You reaction shows you really even weren't interested in the true answer to the question you asked.
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Well, MamaTexan, still respect this man?
Of course I do.
Interesting your earlier expression mentioned the common laws of England, since you now try to cast dispersions on the source while by-passing the CIVILIZING EFFECT of literally hundreds of years of Law by that country.... you know, the ones WE were established FROM.
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