 | T. Alexander Aleinikoff - Law - 2002 - 332 pages
...1984) (en bane), modified, 472 US 846 (1985). 12. See The Antelope, 23 US (10 Wheat.) 66, 122 (1825) ("No principle of general law is more universally...acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations") ; Schooner v. McFaddon, 11 US (7 Cranch) 116, 136 (1812) ("The jurisdiction of the nation within its... | |
 | RC Agarwal - Political Science - 2004 - 580 pages
...they are small or big enjoy tfie same status. "No principle of law", sa*id Chief Justice Marshall, "is universally acknowledged than the perfect equality...equality that no one can rightfully impose a rule on others". Contents Following is the more comprehensive division of the contents of International Law... | |
 | Americo Beviglia Zampetti - Political Science - 2006 - 231 pages
...Antelope case, the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Marshall, held that: 'No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations', The Antelope case, United States, Supreme Court, 1825, 10 Wheaton, 66. 27. See C. Thomas, 'Balance-of-Payments... | |
 | James Roland Pennock, John William Chapman - Political Science - 490 pages
...have to be done by general consent. This follows from the equality of sovereign states. Marshall said: No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged,...itself, but its legislation can operate on itself alone. A right, then, which is vested in all by the consent of all, can be devested [sic] only by consent;... | |
 | Arbitration, International - 1915 - 628 pages
...right to be lost? Each may renounce it for its own people ; but can this renunciation affect others? No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged...itself, but its legislation can operate on itself alone. "A right then which is vested in all, by the consent of all, can be divested only by consent; and this... | |
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No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each legislates for itself, but... 
