[MamaTexan]

Nor did it appear in any translation of Vattel until 10 years after the Constitution - so it is simply false to say Vattel provided a definition of NBC.

LOL! You do realize that quite a few of the Founders were fluent in French, didn't you?

I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the law of nations. Accordingly, that copy which I kept, (after depositing one in our own public library here, and sending the other to the college of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed has been continually in the hands of the members of our congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author. Your manuscript Idee sur le gouvernment et la royauté, is also well relished, and may, in time, have its effect. I thank you, likewise, for the other smaller pieces, which accompanied Vattel. Benjamin Franklin To Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, Philadelphia December 9, 1775.

Just because Vattel didn't write his material with the intention of it being used for Constitutional interpretation doesn't mean the Founders didn't write the Constituion with Vattel in mind

In fact, if the Law of Nations is irrelevant to the Constitution, why are they mentioned IN the Constitution?

[Mr Rogers]

“In fact, if the Law of Nations is irrelevant to the Constitution, why are they mentioned IN the Constitution? “

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The ‘Law of Nations’ in the Constitution doesn’t refer to Vattel’s book. It refers to international law, and punishing acts outside the US boundaries.

[Mr Rogers]

“You do realize that quite a few of the Founders were fluent in French, didn’t you?”

You do realize Vattel NEVER used the French equivalent to NBC anywhere?