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To: bushpilot1

Again: were the Founders thinking of their own states, and the use of NBC in their state laws, or were they thinking of Vattel’s “indigene”? Were they thinking of Vattel’s native, or were they thinking of how they had used NBC when adjusting their state laws?

Were they thinking about “natural born citizen” - a legal phrase that existed prior to the Constitution - or were they thinking of Vattel? And if they were thinking of Vattel, why didn’t they adjust their other laws to match Vattel?

Vattel said citizenship followed the father. That was never true in US law. Even in the 1797 translation of Vattel, it read that the native, or natural born citizen - making an equivalence between native and NBC. Bad translation, but lets pretend it is true. They why are native citizens different in your view than NBC, when Vattel uses them as interchangeable?


1,502 posted on 04/29/2011 7:58:20 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: Mr Rogers

The discussion is Morse..lets stick to him..for the moment..did you read the highlighted sentence..did you see the number 4..did you look..down the page..Droit des Gens..he references 212. I posted 212 from the referenced book.

He writes in English the book is in French. What is he telling us about section 212..its meaning..


1,503 posted on 04/29/2011 8:05:15 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: Mr Rogers

Why do you spend so much time defending 0bama?


1,505 posted on 04/29/2011 8:17:01 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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