Emmerich de Vattel's The Law of Nations was key in framing the United States as the world's first constitutional republic.
Posted on 12/21/2008 4:45:49 AM PST by Army MP Retired
That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, whereever it is capable of being exerted, is to he dreaded more than the plague. The admission of foreigners into our councils, consequently, cannot be too much guarded against; their total exclusion from a station to which foreign nations have been accustomed to, attach ideas of sovereign power, sacredness of character, and hereditary right, is a measure of the most consummate policy and wisdom. It was by means of foreign connections that the stadtholder of Holland, whose powers at first were probably not equal to those of a president of the United States, became a sovereign hereditary prince before the late revolution in that country. Nor is it with levity that I remark, that the very title of our first magistrate, in some measure exempts us from the danger of those calamities by which European nations are almost perpetually visited. The title of king, prince, emperor, or czar, without the smallest addition to his powers, would have rendered him a member of the fraternity of crowned heads: their common cause has more than once threatened the desolation of Europe. To have added a member to this sacred family in America, would have invited and perpetuated among us all the evils of Pandora's Box.
Too late...the commie crooks in the collective Repub/Dem "US association of governance" have figured our how to get around the Constitution...just ignore it.
The constitutional crash is going to snowball on us in a big hurry. My state’s house of representatives just voted in favor of a scam to sidestep the electoral college. What it does is takes a statewide popular vote and combines it with the totals from other “member states” and gives all the electoral votes to the winner.
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http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billintroduced/House/pdf/2008-hIB-6610.pdf
It’s a great way to combine densely populated democrat states with sparsely populated republican states and eliminate the opposition for good.
The Justices of the Supreme Court do not live in a bubble. This is the perfect time to set the record straight on Natural Born Citizen, especially when we have millions of anchor babies from all over the world being born here.
And for the record, from everything I have read, it is my interpretation that there is no such thing as an anchor baby. Reading the Federalist papers, with regard to the 14th Amendment, I think it is pretty clear, that “Under the Jurisdiction of” means, the country to which you have your allegiance, not your physical presence.
They did NOT want to follow the same Natural Law that Great Britian had to make subjects of people against their will. The British used Natural Law to strengthen their empire, we were not about being an empire.
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Apparently, in 1803 Mr. Tucker interpreted native and natural to by synonymous. The dissertation is based on Blackwell and English law.
Even if 0bama was proven to be a non-citizen, the powers that be will ignore it and sweep it under the rug.
and herein lies the problem, the powers that be are no longer We The People, but the federal government.
The powers that once belonged to the people have, over the past 140-150 years, been forfeited to the central government in trade for “security” in one form or another.
The powers not enumerated ... yada, yada, that is a Constitution/BOR long gone and the all powerful federal government has no intention of just returning those powers to the people.
No, the U.S. Constitution states natural born and not native born.
“Native born” and “Natural born” are not the same according to the wording used in the facts of cases of Supreme Court rulings.
The thugs in the streets who participate in riots don’t run this country. DQ Obama now until he proves that he is a natural born American citizen. I don’t believe that he is!
http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244
Good discussion on Blackstone here.
“This is the perfect time to set the record straight on Natural Born Citizen”
I completely agree with that. This would be the perfect opportunity to outline that such a fact must be demonstrated prior to the election, how it should be demonstrated, to whom it must be demonstrated, and it would be the perfect time to expand the class of persons who have standing to challenge a candidate’s qualifications.
Even if they found it did not apply for this election (which it of course should apply to) then at least to give a framework for future elections.
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The early revolutionary leaders’ emphasized Vattel as the authority on constitutional law.
Blackstone’s theories were who we revolted against. He was an expert for British legal doctrine.
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