The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations, Volume 2 |
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... binding wherever men exist , it cannot be set aside by the mere circumstances of time and place , whence it results that there is a law of war as well as a law of peace . As this law applies to the commencement of armed conflicts , war ...
... binding wherever men exist , it cannot be set aside by the mere circumstances of time and place , whence it results that there is a law of war as well as a law of peace . As this law applies to the commencement of armed conflicts , war ...
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... binding upon Christians . - I. THE disputes arising among those who are held together by no common bond of civil laws to decide their dissen- sions , like the ancient Patriarchs , who formed no national community , or the numerous ...
... binding upon Christians . - I. THE disputes arising among those who are held together by no common bond of civil laws to decide their dissen- sions , like the ancient Patriarchs , who formed no national community , or the numerous ...
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... binding or unlawful , but makes them unlawful by its prohibition , and binding by its command . But , to understand natural right , we must observe that some things are said to belong to that right , not prop- erly , but , as the ...
... binding or unlawful , but makes them unlawful by its prohibition , and binding by its command . But , to understand natural right , we must observe that some things are said to belong to that right , not prop- erly , but , as the ...
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... binding , because God wills it . Now this law was given either to mankind in general , or to one particular people . We find three periods , at which it was given by God to the human race , the first of which was immediately after the ...
... binding , because God wills it . Now this law was given either to mankind in general , or to one particular people . We find three periods , at which it was given by God to the human race , the first of which was immediately after the ...
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... bind all men , as soon as they come to a sufficient knowledge of them . XVI . Of all nations there is but one , to which God particularly vouchsafed to give laws , and that was the people of Israel , whom Moses thus addresses in the ...
... bind all men , as soon as they come to a sufficient knowledge of them . XVI . Of all nations there is but one , to which God particularly vouchsafed to give laws , and that was the people of Israel , whom Moses thus addresses in the ...
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