To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. The World's Work - Page 185edited by - 1916Full view - About this book
| 1924 - 680 pages
...the great Doctrine. 'To-day,' he wrote, 'the United States is practically sovereign on this Continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.' It is not necessary to inquire carefully to what subjects it will confine its interposition. Its sentiment... | |
| Arthur Irwin Street - Guyana - 1895 - 50 pages
...power. SUPREME ON THIS CONTINENT. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it...interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt, for it. It is not simply by reason of its high chnracter as n civilized state, nor... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1902 - 886 pages
...from those of America"; that " to-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition"; that it is "master of the situation." V. >!.. VII. — 6. These weighty declarations were further asserted... | |
| Berbice - 1896 - 44 pages
...strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its flat la law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition....is not simply by reason. of its high character as a civlllz«s3 State, nor becaiise wisdom and justice and equity are the invariable characteristics of... | |
| History, Modern - 1896 - 776 pages
...npon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically Sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it...not . because of the pure friendship or good-will feit for it. It is not simply by reason of its high character äs a civilized State, nor because wisdom... | |
| Rowland Rugg - Guyana - 1896 - 80 pages
...DOCTRINE OF AMERICAN PUBLIC LAW. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this Continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it...Why ? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason of its high character as a civilized State, nor because... | |
| Guyana - 1896 - 464 pages
...upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it...Why ? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason of its high character as a civilized state, nor because... | |
| Electronic journals - 1896 - 800 pages
...European powers. His words are: "To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition." Leading up to this imperial utterance, he had said a few sentences back : " That distance and three... | |
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