You are so wrong it is pathetic. Obviously you have never learned to read with comprehension. How can Cruz and Trump be equal when Cruz has one point out of three...his mother was American. Trump’s parents were BOTH American. Cruz was born in Canada. Trump was born in New York which the last I looked was in the united States. Cruz 1/3, Trump 3/3
While there were some things based on Common Law, in general the Constitution was NOT the SOURCE of American Law. It is recorded that one of the Constitutional Committee said so. British Common Law dealt with SUBJECTS of the KING. The King granted them whatever “rights” he pleased. In America it is the PEOPLE...remember from the Declaration of Independence...WE THE PEOPLE....who rule. We have no king and are NOT subjects, we are freemen. As of July 4, 1776, Americans were NO LONGER SUBJECTS OF A KING, THEY WERE CITIZENS OF A FREE AND SOVEREIGN NATION!Subjects and Free Citizens are entirely different.
Vattel was THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED EXPERT on INTERNATIONAL LAW! Dismissing him as just Swiss is rather narrow minded on your part. He was taught in all our universities and a fairly recent dissertation on Vattel was given at the University of Virginia. It is worth reading. We had just finished fighting England for our independence. Why on earth would we set up our Constitution based on the very thing we despised and fought a war to destroy?
Correction: In general British Common Law was not the source of American Law and certainly not our Constitution.
Because unlike what you are portraying the revolution was not as radical as you think. Up until April 19th and in some instances later, our founders viewed themselves as ENGLISH SUBJECTS, with ENGLISH RIGHTS, subject to the ENGLISH KING. The olive branch petition makes that very clear. They started out and continued on fighting for thier ENGLISH RIGHTS as ENGLISHMMEN. Trumps mother while true being a naturalized citizen, was born a forign citizen like Ted’s father. Ted’s father was legally here, and married to Ted’s mother making him elligable to gain citizenship. The place of birth has no bearing, because if you take the NBC clause word by word, and decide it by the definition, both Cruz and Trump are NB. May I then mention, that if American common law, is not based entirely on English common law, then why pray tell did the first law school in America use William Blackstones commentaries on law. The basis of English common law