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Too bad nobody remembered to put that in the Constitution.
They didn't need to. Everyone knew what it meant:
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"At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."
"That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, wherever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague."1803, "View of the Constitution of the United States"
Like a foreign citizen, right? Obama was a foreign citizen at birth, a born foreign citizen.
Vattel has exactly nothing to do with US citizenship law. He never mentioned natural born citizenship once.
Part 1 of Vattel is forming a new nation this includes citizenship and a Constitution, Part 2 is the nation and its relationship with others, Part 3 is on war, and Part 4 is peace and embassies.
Try reading Vattel before claiming to be an authority on the subject.
Last edited by DraggingCanoe; 11-06-2011 at 01:04 AM..
"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 natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
As society cannot perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their parents, and succeed to all their rights."
Again: "I say, to be of the country, it is necessary to be born of a person who is a citizen; for if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
The inhabitants, as distinguished from citizens, are foreigners who are permitted to settle and stay in the country." (Vattel, Book 1, cap. 19, p. 101.)
Justice Daniel, US Supreme Court
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