Jefferson used Vattel’s “The Law of Nations” to write our founding documents

PERSONAL COPY OF 1775 FRENCH EDITION KEY TO FORMULATING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Cmdr. Charles Kerchner (May 3, 2010) — The founders and framers were fluent in French. Thomas Jefferson used his personal copy of the new 1775 French edition of Vattel’s The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law to write the [...]

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