See post #127.
Buckeye & Windflier, I mixed up the names of those posting to be about the State Department FAM and the law of 1795.
So, my apologies for mixing up your names. The points made, though, have nothing to do with that. They are valid.
The Framers also wrote the Articles of Confederation before they replaced it with the U.S. Constitution. Are you going to also claim that our nation is bound to the words they said in that earlier document?
You're basing your argument on an act that was repealed. You may as well argue that Prohibition is still the law of the land. Good luck.