Posted on 05/02/2010 4:18:32 AM PDT by bushpilot1
The first English edition of Law of Nations(1759); or Principles of the Law of Nature: Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns is shown below. The title page is followed by the Preface and then the Table of Contents for Book I and Book II is shown in its entirety.
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758 Emmerich de Vattel Law of Nations; or Principles of the Law of Nature: Applies to the Conduct & Affairs of Nations & Sovereigns 1759 1st. English
Chapt 19
“... The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.”
seems I posted too soon..
This document, however, was NOT incorporated into the Constitution by reference.
You can download the edition you choose as a pdf. Click on the edition's image, choose pdf.
Of course you will need pdf software to read it. The computer industry standard is Adobe Reader, but there are alternatives.
But this PROVES that it was available IN ENGLISH, WAY before the writing of the constitution.
TAKE THAT! Birther DENIERS.
The ‘Law of Nations’ IS embedded in the Constitution in Article I Section 8 with the obligation of Congress to punish offenses. It takes a careful reading of the Constitution to see that the Founding Fathers were very aware of the need to cover the criteria for a NBC.
The specific translation that birthers commonly cite is from after the Constitution.
I've seen this claim made numerous times, but never with the passage in question actually quoted. For anyone who cares, here it is:
The Congress shall have Power To...define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations.
Do people really think this passage gives Congress power to punish offenses against a work by a Swiss philosopher?
Interesting! Isn’t this one of the books that the NY Public library just recently announced George Washington had check out and had not returned?
I believe that by embedding the ‘body ‘ of the treatise that the ‘text’ is automatically embedded also. It is up to Congress to act on what offenses apply as to our Constitution. In any case The Law of Nations is explicit.
Nice effort at muddying NBC with naturalized citizen.
I take it for what the Constitution is explicitly saying. I also believe our Constitution incorporates much of previous history and thinking and law of mankind including the Declaration of Independence which includes the reference to “—Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God—”.
The term "Law of Nations" is a pretty common phrase and doesn't necessarily mean the book of the same name. In fact, looking at the context in which it's used, it's impossible to see how it could be referring Vattel's work.
That's not from the 1759 translation, but rather the 1793/97 one. It's a actually a better rendering into English of what the original French said, and many of founders could read the original French for themselves.
“Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens”
You can see the translater turned the order of the nouns "naturels" (naturals or natural ones) and "indigenes" (natives) around. But that was still better than the 1759 translation which translated "naturales" as "natives" and then left "indigenes" untranslated.
"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens.
1759 translation.
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