Orations, Vol. 15 of 25: From Homer to William McKinley (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Orations, Vol. 15 of 25: From Homer to William McKinley

Neither expression is precisely accurate. There is a body. Of rules more or less distinctly stated by which nations pro fess to comport themselves in their relations with each other; but they are not laws nor are they imposed upon nations nor yet are they international. They are laws only in each state so far as they are promulgated by the sovereign power of that state and they serve international purposes.

Take for example a treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain; when ratified and promulgated by the treaty-making power in the two nations it becomes a rule for both by virtue of their compact, and a rule in each nation for its own citizens by virtue of the promulgation by its own sovereign authority.

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