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To: highball
I have nothing against the Swiss.

But the notion that they know more about the United States Constitution than our own Founding Fathers is laughable at best. *That’s* what I was ridiculing.

Ah, the Strawman fallacy. You deliberately misstate what I said, and then attack what *YOU* said as being ridiculous.

The Swiss gained their independence from their Monarchical masters, several hundred years before we did. The philosophical basis of overthrowing a Monarchy and forming an independent Government was pioneered by them. Nothing in the English principles of law resemble it at all. To argue that the Principles upon which the US was founded come from English Law is what is ridiculous.

Our principles of governance represents a deliberate break from English law. It is the difference between a "Subject" and a "Citizen."

362 posted on 05/12/2013 9:15:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
You deliberately misstate what I said, and then attack what *YOU* said as being ridiculous.

Oh, I'm sorry. Do you not think Vattel a credible source on the requirements for NBC? Where he is in direct conflict with James Madison, who said place was the most important criteria?

If I have misunderstood your position, I apologize. But if I was right, and you're still giving Vattel's opinions more weight than Madison's, it was no straw man.
363 posted on 05/12/2013 7:05:15 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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