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Emer de Vattel Quotes (1714-1767)
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About Emer de Vattel
Emer de Vattel (25 April 1714 – 28 December 1767) was an international lawyer whose works influenced Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers when creating the United States Constitution.
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“Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens.
• Translation: the natural, or indigenous, are those born in the country, parents who are citizens.”
• Translation: the natural, or indigenous, are those born in the country, parents who are citizens.”
“car si vous y etes ne d'un etranger, ce pays sera seulement le lieu de votre naissance, sans etre votre patrie
• Translation: because if you were born there to a foreigner, this country will only be the place of your birth, without being your homeland.”
• Translation: because if you were born there to a foreigner, this country will only be the place of your birth, without being your homeland.”
“Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages.
• Translation: The citizens are the members of the civil society: linked to this society by certain duties and subject to its authority, they participate with equality has its advantages.”
• Translation: The citizens are the members of the civil society: linked to this society by certain duties and subject to its authority, they participate with equality has its advantages.”
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Emer de Vattel on Balance of power (international relations)
“The continual attention of sovereigns to every occurrence, the constant residence of ministers, and the perpetual negotiations, make of modern Europe a kind of republic, of which the members—each independent, but all linked together by the ties of common interest—unite for the maintenance of order and liberty. Hence arose that famous scheme of the political balance, or the equilibrium of power; by which is understood such a disposition of things, as that no one potentate be able absolutely to predominate, and prescribe laws to the others.”
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9 December 1775 on Emer de Vattel
“I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult The Law of Nations. Accordingly, that copy which I kept, (after depositing one in our own public library here, and sending the other to the college of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed3) has been continually in the hands of the members of our congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author.”
1850s case in Supreme Court on Emer de Vattel
“Thus Vattel, in the preliminary chapter to his Treatise on the Law of Nations, says”
1910s case in Supreme Court on Emer de Vattel
“It may not be doubted that the very conception of a just government and its duty to the citizen includes the reciprocal obligation of the citizen to render military service in case of need, and the right to compel it. Vattel, Law of Nations, book III, cc. 1 and 2. To do more than state the proposition is absolutely unnecessary in view of the practical illustration afforded by the almost universal legislation to that effect now in force”
1978 case in Supreme Court on Emer de Vattel
“In 1775, Benjamin Franklin acknowledged receipt of three copies of a new edition, in French, of Vattel's Law of Nations and remarked that the book”
About Emer de Vattel
Emer de Vattel (25 April 1714 – 28 December 1767) was an international lawyer whose works influenced Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers when creating the United States Constitution.