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To: DiogenesLamp
A man that can be compelled by foreign law to fight against his country is not a citizen who is free from foreign influence.

Listen, at first blush it seems like a rather ambitious move for a country like Canada to attempt to draft the president of the United States. But, I have to confess that I have never given much thought to that possibility.

HOWEVER, someone recently turned me on to this treatise on The Law of Nations. It's by a Swiss guy named Vattel who wrote it in French. I'm wondering what Vattel might say about the propriety of one nation attempting to draft into its army the chief of state/head of government of another nation.

See what you can find on that. I will abide by any rule Vattel endorses! ;-)

115 posted on 08/26/2013 3:00:26 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food
Listen, at first blush it seems like a rather ambitious move for a country like Canada to attempt to draft the president of the United States. But, I have to confess that I have never given much thought to that possibility.

Do you really think strawman mockery is an effective tactic? Obviously no Foreign country would attempt to draft someone AFTER they became President, but that is not the point. The point is that they COULD be drafted and made to fight against us prior to the fact.

If someone with Dual citizenship was drafted by a foreign Nation, and fought against us, would they be guilty of treason for fighting us? Would they be guilty of Treason if they didn't? Yeah, that body of law is clear as mud.

HOWEVER, someone recently turned me on to this treatise on The Law of Nations. It's by a Swiss guy named Vattel who wrote it in French.

A lot of people attempt to mock the fact that Vattel was Swiss, and that he wrote "Droit des Gens" in French.

Two points.

1. Switzerland was the only REPUBLIC in the world at that time, and Ideas for governing a Republic were not likely to come from a land ruled by a Monarchy.

2. The international language of Diplomacy was French. If you intended a large circulation of your ideas among the movers and shakers of other nations, it was compulsory that you write them in French.

130 posted on 08/26/2013 4:49:19 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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