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US Constitution
ARTICLE I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
BOOK1, CHAPTER 19
Of Our Native Country and Several Things That Relate to It
§212. Citizens and Natives
“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 the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
“every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”
(Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))
International law. The term “Law of Nations” used in the Constitution is a term of art, it’s preposterous to believe it’s a reference to a particular book.
Originally posted by Byteman
Okay, if not that work, then what Law of Nations is it referring to?
Yes, like Obama’s father citizenship or self-declared race.
Originally posted by Byteman
inconsequential.
You’re serious? Did you bother checking the dictionary?
Define word of art
A word or phrase that has special meaning in a particular context.
Law of nations—
and show how Law of nations means International Law via that mechanism.
another term for international law
Originally posted by Byteman
reply to post by smallpeeps
It is interesting you bring up the 14th amendment. That amendment was principally authored by John A. Bingham.
This is what he had to say on citizenship...
“every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”
(Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))
I see you apply your birther stance to everything. “Since Obama took so long to release his long form birth certificate, it can only mean it’s fake!!!”
Originally posted by Byteman
Well, you would have just said this in your first post if you had actually known it.
Originally posted by Byteman
It has been stated that Hamilton more than any other designed the US government. He is the one who called for the Constitution to be wrote. This man who was influenced by Vattel.
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against [Vattel's book The Law of Nations];
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against [international law];
I see you apply your birther stance to everything. “Since Obama took so long to release his long form birth certificate, it can only mean it’s fake!!!”
You’re the one who is wasting my time. You don’t know one bit of what you’re talking about and when others point out the obvious flaw in your statements you get defensive and lack the humility to acknowledge you were wrong.
Enjoy your stay on ATS.