 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct...equality, that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government, or religion,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 324 pages
...in his learned work, Kent's Commentaries, says, speaking of the perfect equality of nations : " This perfect equality and entire independence of all distinct...States, is a fundamental principle of public law." This national immunity has often been violated by papal bulls of excommunication, releasing subjects... | |
 | Richard Wildman - International law - 1849 - 662 pages
...neither has a powerful state a right to intermeddle in the domestic affairs of a feeble neighbour. The perfect equality and entire independence of all distinct states is a principle of public law generally recognised as fundamental. Relative magnitude creates no distinction... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they •may differ in government, religion or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct...equality, that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government, or religion,... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...so neither has a powerful state a right to intermeddle in the domestic affairs of a feeble neighbor. The perfect equality and entire independence of all distinct states, is a principle of public law generally recognized as fundamental. Relative magnitude creates no distinction... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality and entire independence of all distinct...equality, that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality and entire independence of all distinct...equality, that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think" proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality and entire independence of all distinct...this equality, that each nation has a right to govern itaelf as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion,... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This Uj n sXj u ie a necessary consequence of this equality, that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct...states, is a fundamental principle of public law. 2. What is a necessary consequence of this equality among nations f — 21. It is a necessary consequence... | |
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It is a necessary consequence of this equality, that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion, or a course of interDred Scott v. Sandford. [MB. JUSTICE DANIEL.... 
