Compacts then between nation & nation are obligatory on them by the same moral law which obliges individuals to observe their compacts. There are circumstances however which sometimes excuse the non-performance of contracts between man & man: so are there... The Foundations of American Neutrality - Стр. 12авторы: Carl Russell Fish - 1922 - Страниц: 60Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - Страниц: 678
...excuse the non-performance of contracts between man and man ; so are there also between nation and nation. When performance, for instance, becomes impossible,...self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation in others. For the reality of these principles I appeal to the true fountains of evidence, the head... | |
| 1873 - Страниц: 794
...sometimes excuse the non-performance of contracts between man and man, so there are between nation and nation. "When performance, for instance, becomes impossible,...party, the law of self-preservation overrules the law of obligation to others. For the reality of these principles, I appeal to the true fountains of... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1886 - Страниц: 846
...of Mr. Jefferson, Sec. of State, Mar. 18, 1792. 7 Jeff. Works, 572. "When performance (of a treaty) becomes impossible, nonperformance is not immoral;...self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation to others." Opinion of Mr. Jefferson, Sec. of State, Apr. -28, 1793. 7 Jeff. Works, 613. But "it is not the possibility... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1887 - Страниц: 842
...becomes impossible, nouperformance is not immoral ; so if performance becomes self-destructive to tho party, the law of self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation to others." Opinion of Mr. Jefferson, Sec, of Stute, Apr. 28, 1793. 7 Jeff. Works, 013. But "it is not the possibility... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - Страниц: 1504
...contracts between man and man ; so are there also between nation and nation. When performance, fur instance, becomes impossible, non-performance is not...self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation in others. — FRENCH TREATIES OPINION, vii, 613. FORD ED., vi, 220. (1793.) 1771. . Reason, which... | |
| James Parton - 1902 - Страниц: 798
...and nation. " When performance, for instance, becomes impossible, non-performance is not im moral ; so, if performance becomes self-destructive to the party, the law of self-preservation overrules the law of obligation to others. For the reality of these principles, I appeal to the true fountains of... | |
| Samuel Benjamin Crandall - 1904 - Страниц: 276
...however admitted that conditions might arise that would release the nation from the treaty obligations. " When performance, for instance, becomes impossible,...self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation to others," but the danger which absolves "must be great, inevitable and imminent." As to the French treaties,... | |
| Samuel Benjamin Crandall - 1904 - Страниц: 262
...however admitted that conditions might arise that would release the nation from the treaty obligations. " When performance, for instance, becomes impossible,...self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation to others," but the danger which absolves "must be great, inevitable and imminent." As to the French treaties,... | |
| John Bassett Moore - 1906 - Страниц: 888
...Jeff. Works, 617. " When performance | of a treaty ]. for instance, becomes impossible, nonporformance is not immoral; so if performance becomes selfdestructive...self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation in others; " but " it is not the possibility of danger which absolves, . . . for that possibility always... | |
| John Bassett Moore - 1906 - Страниц: 892
...Mr. Jefferson, Sec. of State, April 28, 1703, 7 Jeff. Works, 617. " When performance [of a treaty], for instance, becomes impossible, nonperformance is not immoral; so if performance becomes selfdestructlve to the party, the law of self-preservation overrules the laws of obligation in others;... | |
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