Here’s a related op-ed [Vattel], “meat and potatoes” enough for me to digest:
New Birth Certificate - Same Old Shell Game
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2712087/posts
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To contextually determine the historic definition of a word or phrase, one must view its definition within historically contemporary primary and secondary sources. The Constitution is actually a secondary source, as it was fashioned after a primary source: Emmerich de Vattel’s “Law of Nations.” In “Law of Nations,” Vattel defined a natural born citizen as one who is born on our soil to citizen parents. That is the primary source definition, and that definition has never been altered—not through amendment, nor by the Supreme Court. Moreover, the framers chose to include that specific requirement as part of a president’s eligibility. It really does not matter why they included it, only that they DID include it; and, having included it, it is part of the highest law of our land.
The fact that so many internet “Einsteins” don’t understand the meaning, or significance, of the term does not alter its definition—as much as they would like it to.
Barack Obama’s father was never a US citizen, so it doesn’t matter if Junior had been born in the Oval Office, swaddled in the American flag, and nursed by Betsy Ross. He has been constitutionally ineligible since the day he was born, and he has already lost that argument before it is ever publicly started.
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You’re 1,000% right.
Eh, unquote.