[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Uh....you must be a DU plant. Yeah, that must be it. Or something....

The idea some have that the writings of a Swiss legal theorist should be given legal precedent over English law at the time of Independence is absurd to anyone who knows anything about the legal history of this country. But that won't stop 'em from trying....

[Conscience of a Conservative]

But Washington checked Vattell's book out of the library. The library! That, of course, means that it's the authoritative legal text of the founding era. Blackstone, Schmackstone.