[MamaTexan]

"Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says..."

James Kent's Commentaries on American Law came before Rawle's work. Kent didn’t like Vattel, but admits HE was the one utilized most frequently in the Founding era..

The most popular, and the most elegant writer on the law of nations, is Vattel, whose method has been greatly admired. He has been cited, for the last half century, more freely than any one of the public jurists; but he is very deficient in philosophical precision.
James Kent , 1826

[editor-surveyor]

>> “The most popular, and the most elegant writer on the law of nations, is Vattel, whose method has been greatly admired. He has been cited, for the last half century, more freely than any one of the public jurists; but he is very deficient in philosophical precision.” <<

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Philosophical precision?

Philosophy is so personal, how can there be such a thing as “Philosophical precision?”

I guess Kent is simply saying that it would be nice if everyone agreed with him? The Rodney King of political philosophy.