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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... wolf clothing. Only God, it seems, can finally bring this wondrous reign of peace to the world. “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks”—but only after “the Lord ... shall 10• Chapter 1.
... seems to rest, in the first place, on this insight: In a world where so many are led astray, boundaries are necessary to pre- serve the possibility of pursuing the true way. By living independently, a pious or righteous people can save ...
... seems to have been for- gotten in Europe that the victory of American arms in 1945 was not fol- lowed by forced conversion of Europeans to the dominant Protestant faith in America or even to Christianity. It seems almost unknown to Eu ...
... seem to embrace post-modernism with the exu- berance of adolescents, discovering that sex is a lot more appealing and a lot more available than they had realized as children. “Postmodernism exposes the smokescreens and the histories of ...
... seem to be pooled. It is a dispute about whether “pooling sovereignty” is not simply a euphemism for surrendering sovereignty— and whether that matters.9 WHAT KiND oF INTERNATioNAL LAW? Clearly, the Framers of the Constitution expected ...
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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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