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... conventions , and commercial associations had a still more direct and visible influence in the for- mation of the great modern code of public law . They gave a new character to the law of nations , and rendered it more and more of a ...
... conventions , and commercial associations had a still more direct and visible influence in the for- mation of the great modern code of public law . They gave a new character to the law of nations , and rendered it more and more of a ...
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... conventions and treaties be- tween sovereigns , contributed gradually to suppress this criminal practice , by rendering the regulations on that subject a branch of the public law of nations . Valin says , it was reserved for the ...
... conventions and treaties be- tween sovereigns , contributed gradually to suppress this criminal practice , by rendering the regulations on that subject a branch of the public law of nations . Valin says , it was reserved for the ...
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... convention at London of the 13th July , 1841 , between Great Britain , France , Austria , Prussia , and Russia , and the Ottoman Porte , it was declared and agreed to be an established principle of public law , that no ships of war of ...
... convention at London of the 13th July , 1841 , between Great Britain , France , Austria , Prussia , and Russia , and the Ottoman Porte , it was declared and agreed to be an established principle of public law , that no ships of war of ...
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... convention of com- merce and navigation between the United States and the Peru - Bolivian Confedera- tion , May 28 , 1838 , and between them and the Kingdom of Greece , August , 1838 , and between them and Portugal , April , 1841 , and ...
... convention of com- merce and navigation between the United States and the Peru - Bolivian Confedera- tion , May 28 , 1838 , and between them and the Kingdom of Greece , August , 1838 , and between them and Portugal , April , 1841 , and ...
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... convention concluded at Mayence , March 31st , 1831 , between all the riparian states of the Rhine , the navigation of that river was declared free , from the point where it becomes navigable into the sea , including its two principal ...
... convention concluded at Mayence , March 31st , 1831 , between all the riparian states of the Rhine , the navigation of that river was declared free , from the point where it becomes navigable into the sea , including its two principal ...
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Page 328 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 509 - So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page 674 - That the said report, with the Resolutions and Letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several Legislatures in order to be submitted to a Convention of Delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the Resolves of the Convention made and provided in that case.
Page 666 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 336 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.
Page 478 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; b*ut does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States ? We think it demonstrable that it does not.
Page 490 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and which does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word among is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Page 677 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 509 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 623 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land...