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Old 11-13-2010, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Your point, if you have one?
I can only make the point. If you miss it, that's entirely on you.

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Were you there?
You can prove me wrong with a single example otherwise.

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That's right. Them damned framers cherry picked! Those blastards!
Or not. There is exactly nothing in the Constitution that can confidently be said to come from Vattel. There is much, on the other hand, that directly contradicts him.


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He had no need. He was addressing intelligent men.
Or he was completely unaware of the concept. That would be no surprise, since it is a concept of English common law, not the continental law with which he was familiar and about which he wrote.

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You didn't misread Wong Kim Ark, you twisted it. Shame on you.
No court in America does or has ever agreed with you on that issue.
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Old 11-13-2010, 04:38 PM
 
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I can only make the point. If you miss it, that's entirely on you.


You can prove me wrong with a single example otherwise.


Or not. There is exactly nothing in the Constitution that can confidently be said to come from Vattel. There is much, on the other hand, that directly contradicts him.



Or he was completely unaware of the concept. That would be no surprise, since it is a concept of English common law, not the continental law with which he was familiar and about which he wrote.


No court in America does or has ever agreed with you on that issue.
Your "understanding" is that the two words, "natural born", in the Constitution, could have, or should have, been omitted.

Well . . . . THEY WEREN'T. Omitted, that is!

You seem to be having a difficult time dealing with that.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Your "understanding" is that the two words, "natural born", in the Constitution, could have, or should have, been omitted.
Wrong again.

Mind reading has never been a particular gift of yours. You should try doing it less.
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Old 11-14-2010, 04:06 PM
 
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Wrong again.

Mind reading has never been a particular gift of yours. You should try doing it less.
You reveal like a peeled banana.
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