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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... actual consequences of any particular action which the United States may undertake, its overall stance looks to many Europeans as the moral equivalent of imperialism—now understood as asserting the right to differ. It follows, in a way ...
... actual law, enforced by an actual government. Governance could have broader scope than government. It could reach behind structures of gov- ernmental control to guide private activity in ways that no government on its own might do. It ...
... actual constitution to confine or control European regula- tory schemes. European law is held to be superior to national law, even to national constitutional law. Meanwhile, federal courts in the United States have opened their doors to ...
... actual treaties—though never ratified by the Senate? For the United States, this raises obvious and serious constitutional concerns. Americans are not accustomed to having their law made for them by free-standing international ...
... actual capacity to protect them. Instead, the UN would simply make their own defense strategy hostage to the calculations of others, who would not be nearly so concerned about the defense of any particular nation as that nation itself ...
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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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