Political and Legal Remedies for War, Volume 20 |
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... civilized world to point to the speedy advent of a season of warfare on an unprecedented scale , and little to suggest the hope of its speedy abolition . If it were conceded that , however distant the time of general and permanent Peace ...
... civilized world to point to the speedy advent of a season of warfare on an unprecedented scale , and little to suggest the hope of its speedy abolition . If it were conceded that , however distant the time of general and permanent Peace ...
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... civilized countries it is already placed on a par with the most abominable crimes . These instances , at least , prove that there is nothing in the mere popularity , diffusion , or antiquity of a practice , itself abhorrent to humanity ...
... civilized countries it is already placed on a par with the most abominable crimes . These instances , at least , prove that there is nothing in the mere popularity , diffusion , or antiquity of a practice , itself abhorrent to humanity ...
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... civilized State against a fee- ble , imperfectly civilized , or semi - barbarous State . Such have been the military enterprises in which England has , during the last century and a half , incessantly en- gaged against small Indian ...
... civilized State against a fee- ble , imperfectly civilized , or semi - barbarous State . Such have been the military enterprises in which England has , during the last century and a half , incessantly en- gaged against small Indian ...
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... civilized governments , or public opinion in civilized States . The result is that the enterprise is nothing more than a voluntary act of force , in which the whole and undivided re- sponsibility rests , from first to last , with the ...
... civilized governments , or public opinion in civilized States . The result is that the enterprise is nothing more than a voluntary act of force , in which the whole and undivided re- sponsibility rests , from first to last , with the ...
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... civilized and politically equal States will , shortly , be enumerated and critically examined , with a view to determining how far existing rules of Interna- tional Law tend to aggravate or to reduce them . In the mean time , it is here ...
... civilized and politically equal States will , shortly , be enumerated and critically examined , with a view to determining how far existing rules of Interna- tional Law tend to aggravate or to reduce them . In the mean time , it is here ...
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Page 147 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Page 219 - ... any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.
Page 147 - ... with reference to any means of communication by Ship-Canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 146 - The Black Sea is neutralized ; its waters and its ports, thrown open to the mercantile marine of every nation, are formally and in perpetuity interdicted to the flag of war, either of the Powers possessing its coasts or of any other Power, with the exceptions mentioned in Articles 14 and 19 of the present treaty.