Word: int
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...present system is inadequate. 1. This is shown by inefficient administration, exemplified by lack of unity (a) In the cabinet-Bryce, p. 87. (b) Between cabinet and congress-Wilson, p. 234, Int. Rev. VII, 146. (c) In placing responsibility-Inter. Rev. IV, 245. 2. It is shown by inefficient legislation, exemplified in lack of (a) a fixed policy-North American Review, vol. 118, p. 1a; Atlantic, April, 1886. (b) Of open debate-Wilson, p. 90. (c) Of responsibility for legislation-Bryce...
...United States, as it is voidable at the pleasure of our government.- Wharton's Digest, vol. 2, pp. 238, et seq. (a) The object of the treaty has never been accomplished.- Letter of Frelinghuysen in Foreign Relations of the U. S. for 1882, pp. 271-283; Pomeroy's Int. Law, 357. (b) England has persistently violated the treaty.- Frelinghuysen to Lowell, 5 May, 1883, Foreign Relations of the U. S. for 1883; Wharton's Digest, c. II, 184. (c) The stipulations in the treaty have become inoperative, (a) by surrender, (b) by acknowledgment of no ground of action.- Wharton...
...change of circumstances and conditions justifies the abrogation of the treaty.- Wharton's Digest 2, pp. 238 et seq; Lawrence's Essays in Int. Law, 142; Tucker's Monroe Doctrine, p. 73; Pomeroy's Int. Law, sec. 281, Ortolan, vol. 1, 99; Heffter, sec. 98, p. 221; Bluntschli, 239, 256; Hautefeuille, vol. 1, pp. 8-10; Hall's Int. Law C. X. (2) The welfare of the United States demands the maintenance of the "Monroe Doctrine."- The Inter-Oceanic Canal and the Monroe Doctrine, in House Reports, 3d sess., 46 Cong., 1, p. 224; Pres. Hayes'message, March...
Best general reference: J. T. Lawrence's essays on Int. Law, 89-162; The Nation, vol. XLVII...
...Clayton-Bulwer treaty is not voidable, but is binding on the United States, and is part of "the supreme law of the land."- Hall's Int. Law, 281-283, 293, 300; Constitution...