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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... Sovereignty 45 CHAPTER FOUR The Enlightenment and the Law of Nations 71 CHAPTER FIVE Diplomacy of Independence 98 CHAPTER SIX A World Safe for Eurogovernance CHAPTER SEVEN The Human Rights Crusade 130 158 CHAPTER EIGHT Is Sovereignty ...
... sovereignty seemed a rea- sonable price to pay for the promise of peace.4 Millions of people in con- quered countries looked upon continued British resistance as an affront to peace. As late as the summer of 1943, the president of ...
... sovereignty. Many scholars disparage thinking about it in the name of pragmatic adjustment. An increasingly influential school of academic writers assures us that, if we do let ourselves look at it, we will find that sovereignty is ...
... sovereignty has been “socially constructed.” In many ways, they were kicking down an open door. American inde- pendence began with a declaration asserting that “governments are in- stituted among men, deriving their just power from the ...
... sovereignty has been closely associated with constitutional government, at least in the sense that constitutional government has only been achieved in sovereign states. And it is only in the modern practice of constitutional government ...
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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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