| Freeman Hunt - 1845 - 624 páginas
...— if engagements are not fulfilled — is it, upon general principles of right, less proper in the case of a great number than in the case of an individual,...assume a new appearance, and to insult him and justice, py declaring, " I am a sovereign state !" Surely not. Before a claim so contrary, in its first appearance,... | |
| 1845 - 604 páginas
...all this, why may not an aggregate of free men, a collection of original sovereigns, do likewise 7 If the dignity of each singly is undiminished, the...appearance, and to insult him and justice, by declaring, " I am a sovereign state !" Surely not. Before a claim so contrary, in its first appearance, to the... | |
| 1845 - 604 páginas
...original sovereigns, do likewise ? If the dignity of each singly is undiminished, the dignity of aU jointly must be unimpaired. A state, like a merchant,...appearance, and to insult him and justice, by declaring, " I am a sovereign state !" Surely not. Before a claim so contrary, in its first appearance, to the... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 páginas
...may do all this, why may not an aggregate of free men, a collection of original sovereigns, do this likewise ? If the dignity of each singly is undiminished,...appearance, and to insult him and justice by declaring I am a sovereign State ? Surely not. Before a claim so contrary, in its first appearance, to the general... | |
| 1876 - 860 páginas
...in substance, the definition of a state quoted by us from his lectures, held otherwise, saying : " A state, like a merchant, makes a contract ; a dishonest...appearance, and to insult him and justice by declaring, ' I am a sovereign state?' Surely not." In 1790, the law professorship was established in the College... | |
| 1921 - 494 páginas
...; if engagements are not fulfilled, is it upon general principles of right, no less proper, in the case of a great number, than in the case of an individual,...appearance, and to insult him and justice, by declaring I am a sovereign State? Surely not." He then drew together the branches of the argument by this bold... | |
| 1876 - 870 páginas
...substance, the definition of a state quoted by us from his lectures, held otherwise, saying: " A 17 state, like a merchant, makes a contract; a dishonest...appearance, and to insult him and justice by declaring, ' I am a sovereign state ? ' Surely not." In 1790, the law professorship was established in the College... | |
| 1884 - 428 páginas
...that a State, any more than the men who compose it, ought not to do justice and fulfill engagements? A State, like a merchant, makes a contract. A dishonest State, like a dishonest merchant, willfully refuses to discharge it. The merchant is amenable to a Court of justice. Upon general principles... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1888 - 502 páginas
...the purposes of the Union, retained it to themselves. Therefore, Georgia is not a sovereign State." " A State like a merchant makes a contract; a dishonest...shall the former, when summoned to answer the fair demand of its creditor, be permitted Proteus-like to assume a new appearance, and to insult him and... | |
| Alexander James Dallas - 1906 - 458 páginas
...may do all this, why may not an aggregate of free men, a collection of original sovereigns, do this likewise? If the dignity of each, singly, is undiminished;...appearance, and to insult him and justice, by declaring I am a sovereign state ? Surely not. Before a claim, so contrary, in its first appearance, to the general... | |
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