Posted on 09/08/2018 3:45:16 PM PDT by CDR Kerchner
Our first national immigration law was the Naturalization Act of 1790. That was not long after the Constitution was signed, and it mentioned the phrase, natural born.
Thomas Jefferson’s use of Vattel’s “The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law” to help write our founding documents: https://www.thepostemail.com/2010/05/03/jefferson-used-vattels-the-law-of-nations-to-write-our-founding-documents/
and http://pixelpatriot.blogspot.com/2015/09/vattel-is-law-part-1.html
4 Supreme Court Cases define “natural born citizen”: https://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/18/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/
For those that would like to read online some of Vattel’s writings on kinds of citizenship see: https://lonang.com/library/reference/vattel-law-of-nations/vatt-119/
So you’re saying that Hamilton, Madison, Adams and Jefferson, in writing our Constitution, cited Vattel’s composition about international treaties with that phrase? I very much disagree.
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You are in error. The letters, notes, records of the leaders of the country who composed the Constitution are explicit in their high regard of Vattel’s Law of Nations. Note that in the Constitution as I have cited, the Law of Nations is capitalized! Third grade English class should have taught you the meaning of Capitalization.
Furthermore Vattel’s three volume Law of Nations was NOT a work of “literature.” Vattel was the recognized international law expert at the time. To denigrate his monumental work in such a dismissive manner speaks poorly of your education.
ALL of the Framers from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Hamilton, Mason on down studied Vattel’s work in both English and in the French in which it was originally written. Proof of this statement abounds. You have only to educate yourself. English Common Law was NOT the major factor in our legal structure by a long shot. English Law is based on servitude as the English citizen was a SUBJECT of the King who could change the laws on a whim. The entire American system of a Democratic REPUBLIC is based on the PEOPLE governing through those they choose to represent them. WE THE PEOPLE...........means what it says. America is NOT an offshoot of the Brits. We are UNIQUE!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It is a pleasure to find those who have truly studied the law and Vattel.
Go to 1795 to find that the error was corrected.
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Lets all hope the tide is turning. We MUST win in November. The future of a FREE America is in the balance. We are STILL fighting Communism but now it is embedded in our country and must be wiped out.
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