Top 6 Emerich de Vattel Quotes

jurist from the Principality of Neuchâtel

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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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Alternative Names: Emer de Vattel • Emeric de Vattel

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Translation: because if you were born there to a foreigner, this country will only be the place of your birth, without being your homeland.

car si vous y etes ne d'un etranger, ce pays sera seulement le lieu de votre naissance, sans etre votre patrie

Translation: the natural, or indigenous, are those born in the country, parents who are citizens.

Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens.

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.

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.