Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 96A.L. Hummel, 1921 - Political science |
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Page 111 - a treaty made under the authority of the United States is a part of the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding, a
Page 134 - The common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe. And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.
Page 32 - has had a wider acceptance. But despite the fact that the Monroe Doctrine has thus become more complicated and broader in its application, there is underlying all its development 1 Cf. President Roosevelt's First Annual Message, December 8, 1901. "Through the Monroe Doctrine we hope to be able to safeguard like independence and secure like permanence for the lesser among the new world nations ... it
Page 97 - to be among those which are generally suitable for submission to arbitration.
Page 80 - others to take advantage of his country. The "equal concern and inseparable interest with other principal powers in the overseas possessions of Germany, and concededly, an equal voice to the disposition," ought to have been claimed by the United States before hostilities ended, or, at the very latest, before the Peace Conference opened Good statesmanship would have prompted a concise setting forth
Page 86 - to the disposition of the Mandatory, and shall be held and administered for the use and common benefit of the natives
Page 41 - At first a principle of American policy, it has become an international understanding, and it is not illegitimate for the people of the United States to ask that the Covenant should recognize
Page 97 - constitute a breach of an international obligation, and the nature and extent of reparation to be made for the breach
Page 44 - however distasteful that course may be to any other nation. At the last session of Congress an amendment to the naval appropriation bill was agreed to by unanimous vote of the Senate, requesting the President to invite the governments of Great Britain and Japan to join with
Page 1 - only fair to say to the world in general and to our associates in war in particular that the League Covenant can have no sanction by us. If any doubt remains of the attitude of the leaders of the Republican party on the existing League of Nations I make the following quotation from Senator Lodge who erected this tombstone above the grave when he said in the Senate on April