Law without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign StatesPrinceton University Press, 09/02/2009 - 360 páginas What authority does international law really have for the United States? When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system? This forcefully argued book by legal scholar Jeremy Rabkin provides an insightful new look at this important and much-debated question. |
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... of the Constitution—or anyone who wants to understand their choices. This book is primarily about American ideas of constitutional govern- ment. It is not a study of international relations, as such. The book offers no advice about how ...
... of the U.S. Constitution, however. And it is ultimately the Constitution that makes the United States a nation. To put it succinctly, this book aims to clarify the assumptions about the world that led the American Founders to “construct ...
Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States Jeremy A. Rabkin. a new criminal justice system, superior to the system established in the Constitution—and not bound by procedural guarantees in the U.S. Con- stitution. The ICC ...
... American court could therefore order state officials to stop the execution of seventeen- year-old murderers—though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled this to be consistent with our own Constitution and the Senate has never ratified any ...
... of the Constitution expected the United States to participate in some system of international legal understandings. The Constitution, itself, specifies that Congress, among its other enumerated powers, should have the power to enact ...
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The Constitutional Logic of Sovereignty | 45 |
The Enlightenment and the Law of Nations | 71 |
Diplomacy of Independence | 98 |
A World Safe for Eurogovernance | 130 |
The Human Rights Crusade | 158 |
Is Sovereignty Traded in Trade Agreements? | 193 |
American Independence and the Opinions of Mankind | 233 |
Notes | 271 |
Index | 345 |
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