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To: Kansas58
Blackstone was FAR more important, to the founders, than was Vattel. That you ignore Blackstone says a great deal about how weak your case is.

Wrong nimrod. LoL. Vattel, who wrote the Law of Nations was the guiding light for the Founders - not Blackstone.

And Blackstone and Vattel do agree on natural born. Read carefully.

"William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:354, 357–58, 361–62

1765

“Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it.. . .

“When I say, that an alien is one who is born out of the king’s dominions, or allegiance, this also must be understood with some restrictions. The common law indeed stood absolutely so; with only a very few exceptions: so that a particular act of parliament became necessary after the restoration, for the naturalization of children of his majesty’s English subjects, born in foreign countries during the late troubles. And this maxim of the law proceeded upon a general principle, that every man owes natural allegiance where he is born, and cannot owe two such allegiances, or serve two masters, at once. ...

To encourage also foreign commerce, it was enacted by statute 25 Edw. III. st. 2. that all children born abroad, provided both their parents were at the time of the birth in allegiance to the king,…might inherit as if born in England: and accordingly it hath been so adjudged in behalf of merchants. "


Tsk tsk... you shouldn't be reading those OBot blogs. They have a tendency to lie to themselves and everyone else.

284 posted on 08/01/2012 5:34:20 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
You might notice, if you understood legal argument, that the thread concerns Rubio.

On the question of Rubio and HIS Natural Born Citizenship status, Blackstone agrees with me.

““Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the allegiance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it.. . .”

286 posted on 08/01/2012 5:45:32 PM PDT by Kansas58
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