Posted on 02/10/2012 6:27:16 AM PST by Former MSM Viewer
I'm going to expand on this. It doesn't matter if Vattel's Law of Nations influenced the Constitution or not.
1. Vattel's book was not law, is not law, and won't be law unless either SCOTUS incorporates it into law, or it is codified by Congress. It's definition of was "natural born citizen" is does not count for anything. Period. 14th Amendment and the United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision covered it.
2. The Erie case is more complicated than that. It ended federal common law and applied the state common law in federal diversity cases. For non-lawyers here, diversity here refers to cases in federal court due to parties being in different states among a lot of other things that would take a whole semester of civ-pro to understand.
And one more thing: If Rubio is selected as VP, I will vote against his ticket.
And you call yourself a loyal American and you call me a traitor?
Your problem is that you are just DUMB. Read my tagline. Obama's father was not a citizen. Obama is not a natural-born citizen, and is therefore NOT eligible per the Constitution.
There are other people to vote for than Obama.
I think you are whisky-papa.
What is a whisky-papa?
No, the Supreme Court has not agreed with you. Just the opposite.
you just id why common law during the writing of the constitution would not have flowed citizenship by place of birth and instead by fathers loyalty.
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