Sentences with phrase «laws of the nations»

The wishes of a god that can not even be proven to exist are not relevant to the laws of a nation that was built for the very purpose of freeing humanity from enforced religion.

As Nuremberg had shown, there is a higher law than the positive law of nations and every child has the right to be brought up by his or her parents.

Thus we find examples of the just war tradition in theorists of the law of nations and in positive international law; we have a form of this tradition in modern military codes, rules of engagement, and praxis; and two of the most important theorists of just war over the past forty years have been the Protestant theologian Paul Ramsey and the political philosopher Michael Walzer.

John Eppstein, writing The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations between the World Wars, argues that proportionality and last resort are to be found in the arguments of the Neoscholastics, but the texts he cites do not clearly make the case.

«If I were permitted to write all the ballads I need not care who makes the laws of the nation.»

An evenhanded settlement, enforced by the Security Council, would solidify the authority of the law of nations and justify allegiance to it by Muslims and Israelis who have decried past UN decisions for their partiality.

The leadership of the United States should tackle the complex political tasks of creating the institutions to enforce the law of nations in the future.

During the cold war, U.S. adherence to the law of nations and its institutions waned, but Iraq's invasion of Kuwait afforded an opportunity for the U.S. to reassert that adherence.

The history of the failure to defend the law of nations in the League of Nations in 1931 (the invasion of Manchuria) and in 1935 - 36 (the invasion of Ethiopia) is recalled in terms of the most disastrous consequence — World War II.

In the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.»

Unlike many religious people in the 1920s and «30s who held out utopian hopes for the institutions of the law of nations, we should not expect to eliminate conflict in the post-cold-war era.

The nations involved would therefore consider themselves agents of the law of nations rather than merely allies of the U.S..

There is now an urgent necessity to recover the legacy of the law of nations.

As Andrew Fletcher, an 18th century Scottish patriot, once boldly proclaimed, «If one were permitted to make all the ballads one need not care who should make the laws of a nation.»

If Romney is willing to hold the laws of the nation over the laws of his religion while in office, then I don't see why he wouldn't be a viable candidate.

I used to think that way, until the evangelical crowd decided that they wanted to force their beliefs into the laws of this nation.

If one of those laws happens to conflict with an employer's religious principles, then that is too bad for the employer — they still have to follow the laws of this nation.

Therefore, they are obligated to obey the laws of this nation that deal with the employer / employee relationship — they have to obey minimum wage laws, they have to treat workers of different genders and races equally, etc..

Just like any other company in any nation, they have to obey the laws of that nation.

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

Also, «crime» doesn't really work that way in the law of nations.

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and permanent law of the nation.

Have the procurement laws of the nation been adhered to?

It seems clear that whatever process was used in awarding the contract could not have been in line with the procurement laws of the nation.

32 Sovereign immunity is thus just an extension of these paradigms, ensuring that states do not have to be accountable for its violations through the law of nations.

However, passengers flying between or within foreign countries may be protected from flight delays and cancellations by the laws of another nation.

And most important of all, we need to put a price on carbon — with a CO2 tax that is then rebated back to the people, progressively, according to the laws of each nation, in ways that shift the burden of taxation from employment to pollution.

But I think it very clear that the Constitution neither speaks of them as States or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes, an anomaly unknown to the books that treat of States, and which the law of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held together only by ties of blood and habit, and

The United States Supreme Court begins its new term today by hearing arguments in Klobel, Esther, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, et al. (10 - 1491)(regarding corporate tort liability for violations of the law of nations) and Lozman, Fane v. Riviera Beach, FL (11 - 626)(regarding whether moored floating structures constitute «vessels»).

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

138 The Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 provides that «[t] he district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.»

It then ordered that the case be reargued in order to answer the question: «Whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute... allows courts to recognize a cause of violations of the law of nations occurring within the territory of a sovereign other than the United States.»

If nation X has jurisdiction then you are tried under the laws of nation X.

The ATS, which was enacted by the first US Congress in 1789, allows for US jurisdiction over «all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations.»

I was also delighted to see that the latest issue of the LRB contains a vigorous review by Lord Sedley of The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law by Nigel Rodley, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations by Daniel Heller - Roazen, and The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter Leeson.

The laws of any nation are, by definition, open source.

The ATS, a single sentence within the Judiciary Act of 1789, provides United States federal courts with original jurisdiction over «any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.»

10, of the Constitution to «define and punish... Offenses against the Law of Nations...» of which the law of war is a part, had, by the Articles of War (10 U.S.C. § § 1471 - 1593), recognized the «military commission» appointed by military command, as it had previously existed in United States Army practice, as an appropriate tribunal for the trial and punishment of offenses against the law of war.

Court - watchers are now left to ponder the wording of the extraterritoriality question as framed for rebriefing: «Whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. sec. 1350, allows courts to recognize a cause of action for violations of the law of nations occurring within the territory of a sovereign other than the United States.»

To all cases of Admiralty and Maritime jurisdiction, because, as the seas are the joint property of nations, whose right and privileges relative thereto are regulated by the law of nations and treaties, such cases necessarily belong to national jurisdiction.

By such exercise and establishment, the law of nations, the rule between contending states, will be enforced among the several states in the same manner as municipal law.

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

We all can know and live by it so we don't get into trouble with the law but some choose not to know and not to obey the laws of the nation.

The case turns on the meaning of the Alien Tort Statute, a cryptic 1789 law that allows federal district courts to hear «any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.»

Obviously claims that national security legitimizes behavior X have some limitations under the law of any nation which claims to be ruled by law, including the United States.

As Mike Widener summarizes it, «Selden conceded the innocence of harmless navigation and commerce, but maintained that restrictions on them do not necessarily violate the law of nature and the law of nations.

Possession which has not been legally questioned within a moderate number of years, ought to be, as by the laws of all nations it is, a complete title.

The laws of the nation, however, specify that there are no restrictions on what type of currency its citizens decide to use.

When seeking to understand the laws of a nation, it is necessary to understand whether or not there is an older legal system those laws may be modelled after.

(116) The foundation of international law in the nation state whose social organisations are characterised by exclusive territory and centralised and hierarchical authority, meant that Indigenous people, organised through tribal or kinship ties, decentralised political structures and overlapping territorial spheres, would never benefit from the international law of nations.