A Treatise on International Law and a Short Explanation of the Jurisdiction and Duty of the Government of the Republic of the United StatesGardner, Daniel. A Treatise on International Law, and a Short Explanation of the Jurisdiction and Duty of the Republic of the United States. Troy: From the Press of N. Tuttle, 1844. xii, [13]-315 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-455-X. Cloth. $95. * Gardner [1799-1863] was an attorney who practiced in Troy, New York, and a local politician who held several minor municipal offices in that city. The first part of this remarkable work argues that international law needs to return to its roots in natural law revealed in Scripture. Two major prejudices are embedded in this argument: the United States has done this, and Great Britain will not, choosing instead to dominate the oceans through force. The brief second part addresses the "internal jurisdiction of our national government over the states, the people of the United States and the Indian tribes possessing a portion of our territory" (269). It dispenses with the theological model of the first section to offer an outline of Federal powers as defined by constitutional law. His analysis of slavery is interesting. Though he clearly despises it, Gardner concludes that it cannot be abolished by Congress. He hopes, however, that the "chivalry of the south" will eventually imitate "Alexander of Russia and nobly set their vassals free" (286). |
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... Cicero , without think- ing of Christianity , correctly says , " there are two sorts of disputing in the world , the one by reason and the other by open force ; and the former of these being that which is agreeable to the nature of man ...
... Cicero , without think- ing of Christianity , correctly says , " there are two sorts of disputing in the world , the one by reason and the other by open force ; and the former of these being that which is agreeable to the nature of man ...
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... Cicero , are found , as the histo- rians of Rome say , among these violated Sabine women ; and the ancestral fathers of these great Romans , were the robbers , who by treachery and force , thus provided Rome with her first matrons and ...
... Cicero , are found , as the histo- rians of Rome say , among these violated Sabine women ; and the ancestral fathers of these great Romans , were the robbers , who by treachery and force , thus provided Rome with her first matrons and ...
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... Cicero the Consul , and the subsequent tragical fate of the great orator , present a striking illustration of the corrupt morals and bloody ferocity of the Romans , The triumph and assassination of Julius Ciesar — the victorious ...
... Cicero the Consul , and the subsequent tragical fate of the great orator , present a striking illustration of the corrupt morals and bloody ferocity of the Romans , The triumph and assassination of Julius Ciesar — the victorious ...
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... Cicero , in strains of eloquence , pourtrays this corruption and violence , and deeply deplores it in his ethical writings . Sallust , in his history of the conspiracy of Gataline , presents the same views . Such were the morals and ...
... Cicero , in strains of eloquence , pourtrays this corruption and violence , and deeply deplores it in his ethical writings . Sallust , in his history of the conspiracy of Gataline , presents the same views . Such were the morals and ...
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... Cicero . Cicero , the first orator and philosopher of Home , lived in the age preceding the Christian era . He learned from Plato the doctrine of immortality , and his moral sense seems to have been more en lightened than that of any ...
... Cicero . Cicero , the first orator and philosopher of Home , lived in the age preceding the Christian era . He learned from Plato the doctrine of immortality , and his moral sense seems to have been more en lightened than that of any ...
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