Thomas Jefferson a Founder of our Nation and a Framer of our Constitution used his personal copy of 1775 french edition of The Law of Nations - Thanks CDR Kerchner
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Thomas Jefferson a Founder of Our Nation and a Framer of Our Constitution used his personal copy of 1775 french edition of “The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law” by Vattel to help write the Founding Documents.
The founders and framers were fluent in French. Thomas Jefferson used his personal copy of the new 1775 french edition of the Vattel’s Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law to write the Declaration of Independence and for the creation of the U.S. Constitution. Quotations such as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, “Laws of Nature” and concepts for a new “more perfect” form of government with a written Constitution and independent Judiciary and the sovereignty of the People are right out of Vattel’s Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law.
Evidently George Washington himself valued the "Law of Nations" so highly that he borrowed a copy from the NY Public Library -- and never returned it!
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