Political and Legal Remedies for War, Volume 20 |
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... whole people , and not of any frac- tional part of it ; that personal liberty is to be respected and hedged round with adequate guarantees ; that taxation and rep- resentation are to be coextensive ; and that the rights of free public ...
... whole people , and not of any frac- tional part of it ; that personal liberty is to be respected and hedged round with adequate guarantees ; that taxation and rep- resentation are to be coextensive ; and that the rights of free public ...
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... whole people , acting through their freely elected representatives , and not by the Government alone . These two facts cannot but have a most decisive influence on the frequency and on the du- ration of Wars , though the character of ...
... whole people , acting through their freely elected representatives , and not by the Government alone . These two facts cannot but have a most decisive influence on the frequency and on the du- ration of Wars , though the character of ...
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... whole country , are only parts of this phenomenon . The inherent temptation of Churchmen is to prefer order and quiet to right . The pursuit of right , as such , is always a restless search ; it may lead to strange companion- ships ; it ...
... whole country , are only parts of this phenomenon . The inherent temptation of Churchmen is to prefer order and quiet to right . The pursuit of right , as such , is always a restless search ; it may lead to strange companion- ships ; it ...
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... whole heaven ; nor to ignore the obscure virtues and graces of the humblest soldier who simply does his work because it is before him to do , and who asks no other reward than that he may be held one day in indiscriminate remembrance ...
... whole heaven ; nor to ignore the obscure virtues and graces of the humblest soldier who simply does his work because it is before him to do , and who asks no other reward than that he may be held one day in indiscriminate remembrance ...
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... whole field of human affairs . The time has not yet come when even the Christian vision is cleansed enough to look upon War as it is , and as dissociated from one and another of the petty gains of a moral kind which it seems to bring ...
... whole field of human affairs . The time has not yet come when even the Christian vision is cleansed enough to look upon War as it is , and as dissociated from one and another of the petty gains of a moral kind which it seems to bring ...
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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.