Tuesday, September 25, 2012


Obama's Own Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Admits America's Founders and Our Constitution were Inspired by the Ideas and Values of Emer de Vattel

CLICK TO ENLARGE

July 29th, 2011 statement from S.o.S. Hillary Clinton posted at The U.S. State Department Website:

"America’s Founders were inspired by the ideas and values of early Swiss philosophers like Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui and Emer de Vattel, and the 1848 Swiss Constitution was influenced by our own U.S. Constitution. Swiss commitment to democracy is an example for nations and people everywhere who yearn for greater freedoms and human rights." Hat tip to rxsid.

E. Vattel, The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law, Sec. 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." http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/vattel/vatt-119.htm

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.