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Funny thing about Vattel is that I never heard of him (as many, many people agree) until Donofrio started quoting him.
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Funny thing about Vattel is that I never heard of him (as many, many people agree) until Donofrio started quoting him.
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Back in 1789, the first president borrowed a copy of The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel from the New York Society Library, but he never returned it.
News Junkies 2010
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Finally, I figured out why people are convinced that the Constitution requires both of your parents to have been born in the U.S. in order for you to be deemed a natural born citizen — they are relying on the Kerchner lawsuit, which says, ‘According to “The Law of Nations” by Emmerich de Vattel, 1758, Chapter 19, Section 212, “natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens.”’
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Vattel was the single most influential writer on international law in the 18th C.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010
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Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says:
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Previous translations of Vattel (1760 and 1787) did not even have the term natural born citizen.
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Of course, Vattel was a Swiss legal expert who made that statement in reference to European law generally, not with regard to the then-nonexistent United States Constitution.
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Previous translations of Vattel (1760 and 1787) did not even have the term natural born citizen.
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Again a desperate argument, especially since Thomas Jefferson taught Natural Law at UVA. in the 1770s, and Vattel was the text of the class.
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