[rxsid]

Early courses and professors at William and Mary College
By Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha, William and Mary College - 1904

"The Faculty as now constituted was remarkably able. There was first the President James Madison, who had charge of the department of Natural and Moral Philosophy, International Law and Political Economy. He was a graduate of William and Mary, and afterwards studied in England where he attended the lectures of the celebrated Cavallo on Natural Science. Though subsequently Bishop of the Episcopal church, his proper place was in the class room, where he spent as much as four to six hours a day. Under his tutelage Adam Smith's great work Inquiry into the Nature and Sources of the Wealth of Nations and Vattel's Law of Nations were taught at William and Mary earlier than at any other College in the United States." [Sometime around 1779]
Pg. 6.

[bushpilot1]

My 1928 edition bouvier’s law dictionary:

native, native citizen: A natural-born subject. 91 Bla. Com. 366)

Those born in a country, of parents who are citizens. (Morse Citizenship 12)

There is no distinction between native born as used in the French Extradition treaty and natural born as used in the extradition act

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[Spaulding]

Thanks, as usual rsxid. The Tyler essay is an amazing find. As you and others open this history it is sometimes hard to keep the objective in - the all too obvious constitutional illegitimacy of Obama - in focus. My source for William and Mary references was F.S. Ruddy in the Grotrian Society Papers, but here it all is. This essay wasn't among the F.S. Ruddy citations, but is more meaningful! Jefferson and Marshall are being taught the Law of Nations and Adam Smith by George Wyeth. Madison is the President of the College. Under Jefferson and Madison the the charter of the college was radically changed from a school of divinity with foci on Greek, Latin, and Classics, to a modern college with departments of law, medicine, and modern languages. That, as your reference explicates, is how and when the course Law of Nature and of Nations was started by Jefferson in 1779. The puzzle of our founders and framers is being exposed. One could wonder if Jefferson and Madison, after the revolution but without a federal framework, realized that we needed lawmakers with the education oversee a republic of laws. (I hope Google, as they have in many cases to protect Obama, doesn't withdraw this reference. I note that it came from the Stanford Library)

The author's brief history of this amazing college is a capsule of how our framers were shaped and thus shaped the republic. Look who was involved in informing the thinking of our framers, and how many of them came from William and Mary - Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall, James Munroe, St. George Tucker, George Wythe.

I recall early in 2009 when The Regime's cadre was challenging worried bloggers with the claim that hardly anyone paid attention to the second-rate Swiss philosopher during the framing. Did Larry Tribe, for whom Obama was a research assistant at Harvard, create the diversions? He certainly knows much of this history, but must be presumed to have decided that a monarchy in the mode of Stalin, Castro, Chavez, is preferable to the wisdom of the framers and their enlightenment sources.

Jack Cashill pointed out in American Thinker that Elene Kagen covered for Tribe when he was caught having plagiarized significant passages in a book he had written, which is probably why he was not on Obama’s short list for the court - but Kagen is!

As an aside, since no one is judging my coherence, a very well known mathematician, Harvard graduate, once surprised me with a historical insight. Asking how he happened to know he said "I wanted to be a historian while at Harvard but learned that I wasn't smart enough." He went on to get his PhD in mathematics at Berkeley. Larry Tribe did do undergraduate work in mathematics, and may have laid the path to allow a talented non-natural born citizen to lead us to the far left. He may be advising the White House's paid disinformation cadre. Larry has spent over fifty years in ivory towers since his high school years with the proletariat in a public school in San Francisco.

Between you and Bushpilot1 there are the makings of a documented history of our framer's thinking. William and Mary was creating our leaders from 1693. The reference to the paper by Michael Ramsey provided by BushPilot1 is a cogent description of how Law of Nations was integrated de facto into our formal legal framework. It is very dense, but shows that the framers didn't accept the entire body as our common law, but overlaid the law of nations onto the existing English common law.