Political and Legal Remedies for War, Volume 20 |
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... least , prove that there is nothing in the mere popularity , diffusion , or antiquity of a practice , itself abhorrent to humanity , which can secure for it a lasting endurance . Judicial Combat . • * See Stubbs's Constitutional History ...
... least , prove that there is nothing in the mere popularity , diffusion , or antiquity of a practice , itself abhorrent to humanity , which can secure for it a lasting endurance . Judicial Combat . • * See Stubbs's Constitutional History ...
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... obsolete — a subject which will be treated farther on- -it is at least obvious that the stimulus and the obstacles to Wars of this class are of a totally different kind from those present in the case of Wars of DIVERSITY IN MODERN WARS .
... obsolete — a subject which will be treated farther on- -it is at least obvious that the stimulus and the obstacles to Wars of this class are of a totally different kind from those present in the case of Wars of DIVERSITY IN MODERN WARS .
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... least in harmony with the demands of the current civilization . These changes have proceeded far more rapidly and decisively in the case of land warfare than of sea warfare ; though in this latter they have advanced most conspicuously ...
... least in harmony with the demands of the current civilization . These changes have proceeded far more rapidly and decisively in the case of land warfare than of sea warfare ; though in this latter they have advanced most conspicuously ...
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... least suffices to rebut any presumption that War must , of necessity , be coeval with the life of civilized States ; and if no such presumption can be fairly made , then it is legitimate for the reformers of International Law to include ...
... least suffices to rebut any presumption that War must , of necessity , be coeval with the life of civilized States ; and if no such presumption can be fairly made , then it is legitimate for the reformers of International Law to include ...
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... least to maintain a War , unless the Government can so far con- ciliate a popularly - constituted Assembly as to procure the nec- essary supplies , has the effect of launching the vital topic of how the War arose into the field of ...
... least to maintain a War , unless the Government can so far con- ciliate a popularly - constituted Assembly as to procure the nec- essary supplies , has the effect of launching the vital topic of how the War arose into the field of ...
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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.