 | Gideon Miner Davison, Samuel Williams - 1815 - 126 pages
...great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations...of the country to which the vessels belong : and a self redress is assumed, which, if British subject were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | 1816 - 416 pages
...highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it : not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemv, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1817 - 522 pages
...highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force, for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | 1817 - 526 pages
...highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force, for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | William James - 1818 - 520 pages
...highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations,...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned,, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | 1819 - 524 pages
...great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right^ founded on the law of nations...extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where DO laws can operate but the law of nations, and the laws of tbe country to which the vessels belong... | |
 | James Madison - 1819 - 484 pages
...great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations...enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British 1 " More than six months had passed since Congress met, and the question of actual war was still in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 976 pages
...great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | John Brannan - 1823 - 510 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerant right founded on the law of nations against an enemy,...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force,- for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | John Brannan - 1823 - 522 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerant right founded on the law of nations against an enemy,...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force, for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
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British Cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against... 
