Political and Legal Remedies for War, Volume 20 |
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... less rigorously complied with . But the result is , from the very commencement , a foregone conclu- sion ; and the only issue involved for the more powerful State is that of the expediency of inflicting the chastisement , the ex- pense ...
... less rigorously complied with . But the result is , from the very commencement , a foregone conclu- sion ; and the only issue involved for the more powerful State is that of the expediency of inflicting the chastisement , the ex- pense ...
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... less amount of deference to the public opinion of , and in , other States , which is acknowledged on entering upon them , and which regulates the conduct of them . Another class of Wars of a wholly peculiar kind , and present- ing ...
... less amount of deference to the public opinion of , and in , other States , which is acknowledged on entering upon them , and which regulates the conduct of them . Another class of Wars of a wholly peculiar kind , and present- ing ...
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... so far as its causes and conditions go , extremely unlike what is called War in every other case ; that the reasons for one class of Wars becoming less frequent , or vanishing altogether , are different 16 MODERN WARS AND PERMANENT PEACE .
... so far as its causes and conditions go , extremely unlike what is called War in every other case ; that the reasons for one class of Wars becoming less frequent , or vanishing altogether , are different 16 MODERN WARS AND PERMANENT PEACE .
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Sheldon Amos. becoming less frequent , or vanishing altogether , are different from , and stronger or weaker than , those which may be assign- ed in the case of another class of Wars ; and that , in a word , War , as a general fact , is ...
Sheldon Amos. becoming less frequent , or vanishing altogether , are different from , and stronger or weaker than , those which may be assign- ed in the case of another class of Wars ; and that , in a word , War , as a general fact , is ...
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... less frequent , and shorter in duration , brings into sharper contrast the enormous expenditure of all sorts on War , entailed in times of Peace , with the product of the expenditure , reaped in the brief and more and more rarely ...
... less frequent , and shorter in duration , brings into sharper contrast the enormous expenditure of all sorts on War , entailed in times of Peace , with the product of the expenditure , reaped in the brief and more and more rarely ...
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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.