Institutes of International Law: Public and Private, as Settled by the Supreme Court of the United States, and by Our Republic : with References to Judicial Decisions |
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... constitution or confederation . The original thirteen colonies of the United States repudiated the government of Great Britain , and assumed to act as inde- pendent sovereignties in 1775 , and July 4th , 1776 , as the thirteen United ...
... constitution or confederation . The original thirteen colonies of the United States repudiated the government of Great Britain , and assumed to act as inde- pendent sovereignties in 1775 , and July 4th , 1776 , as the thirteen United ...
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... constitutional . ( See , also , to same effect , Graham vs. Strader , 5 B. Monroe's R. 173 , 180-182 . ) It results from the foregoing doctrines that national sovereignty , as limited by the constitution of the Union , acts upon and for ...
... constitutional . ( See , also , to same effect , Graham vs. Strader , 5 B. Monroe's R. 173 , 180-182 . ) It results from the foregoing doctrines that national sovereignty , as limited by the constitution of the Union , acts upon and for ...
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... Constitution of the Union was intended to make it more perfect . ( Ib . 192. ) Hamilton , Madison , Jay , Clay , Webster , and many of our statesmen and jurists , agree that there is no legal and peaceful mode of changing onr union ...
... Constitution of the Union was intended to make it more perfect . ( Ib . 192. ) Hamilton , Madison , Jay , Clay , Webster , and many of our statesmen and jurists , agree that there is no legal and peaceful mode of changing onr union ...
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... constitutions of States , or vested with the necessary power by the body of each nation , may , according to Grotius ... Constitution of the United States confers on the national government the power of making war and treaties , and , by ...
... constitutions of States , or vested with the necessary power by the body of each nation , may , according to Grotius ... Constitution of the United States confers on the national government the power of making war and treaties , and , by ...
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... constitution as to the mode of admit- ting a foreign State or a part of its territory and people , must be considered as finally settled . This view of the subject is supported by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States ...
... constitution as to the mode of admit- ting a foreign State or a part of its territory and people , must be considered as finally settled . This view of the subject is supported by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States ...
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Page 154 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 154 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 334 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 154 - Governments shall have power, jurisdiction, and authority, upon complaint made under oath, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of the fugitive or person so charged, that he may be brought before such Judges or other Magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered...
Page 369 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
Page 58 - The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts, contracted, or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 348 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Page 26 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
Page 683 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 187 - Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court. But if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void, and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal in opposition to them.