To: Elsiejay; Fee
“The Law of Nations, from which the eligibility standard stated in the U. S. Constitution is derived...”
The US Supreme Court says the meaning is found in English common law. Not an edition of Vattel published 10 years after the Constitution was written. But then, US law doesn’t follow Vattel on citizenship, or everything would depend on our parent’s status.
78 posted on
05/08/2011 9:52:40 AM PDT by
Mr Rogers
(Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
To: Mr Rogers
Why did the Founding Fathers change the language of the presidential eligibility from born a Citizen to natural born Citizen?
88 posted on
05/08/2011 10:04:34 AM PDT by
Godebert
To: Mr Rogers
George Mason, called the "Father of the Bill of Rights" and considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States, is widely quoted as saying:
"The common law of England is not the common law of these states."
( Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 19 June 1788)
To: Mr Rogers
The United States was formed based on the writings of Vattel. Stop lying on Free Republic.
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