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...white race was considered property. The term "property" is rather intangible and not definite. The term "by due process of law" has also many implications. It goes back to the time of Edward III and is even understood in the phrase "the law of the land" in the Magna Charta. We are still in doubt as to what constitutes...
...armaments. The second committee made the laws of war more humane. By far the most important results were those obtained by the committee on arbitration. Before the Hague treaty was signed there was no real code of International law; so that this treaty has been aptly called the "Magna Charta of International Law." By it, arbitration is not compulsory, but every nation is urged to resort to it. Four judges are to be selected from each nation, from whom each of the contending parties will select two and these judges will select a fifth. The nations must agree to abide...
Minister Phelps has sent to the Yale Law School a handsome framed facsimile copy of Magna Charta recently published by the British Government...