Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

128 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) and continuously governed them, other powers were free to step in, even if the Span ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 129 cultivated by its occupants— and the fi rst persons to undertake that worthy chore became, ...

130 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) liberally from Roman law— were seen to be two: fi rst, a bona fi de intention on th ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 131 solute own er, did not possess the right or power to make alienations that were prejudicial ...

132 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) With their landholdings confi ned to a few selected points, such as Goa, Ma- lacca, ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 133 ography as well as law. His experience in international aff airs began early. In 1598, befo ...

134 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) 1609, as a short book entitled Freedom of the Seas, which was a reworking of one of ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 135 minion Maris (Closed Sea or Sovereignty over the Sea), took issue with Grotius, largely alo ...

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[B]y mutual consent it has become possible that certain laws should originate as between all states, or a great many states; and ...

140 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550–1815) Th irty Years War; second, and more broadly, as a basis for a longer- term Eu- ro pe a ...

Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550–1815) 141 so much over the doings of craft y politicians— became stronger than ever. Th e sevent ...

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chapter four Putting Nature and Nations Asunder I t was traditionally supposed that Alexander the Great traveled with a copy of ...

144 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) Along with it, the idea of statecraft as a high art, with distinctive features of its ...

Putting Nature and Nations Asunder 145 Aristotle, he saw the state as an in de pen dent and self- subsisting entity. More import ...

146 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) Where Bodin’s ideas broke new ground was in seeing sovereignty not pri- marily as a p ...

Putting Nature and Nations Asunder 147 dent sovereigns. As it happened, though, he did not develop this line of thought with any ...