Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several weeks ago Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, told Governor Sorlie that, according to legal advice he had taken, the Governor did not have power to appoint a senator. Apparently the Governor accepted this opinion; only recently Mr. Sorlie called a special election for next June to fill the vacancy. North Dakota may now have three men filling one Senate post in the course of a single year: Mr. Nye serving from now to June; a second man elected next June to serve until March, 1927; and a third senator elected...
...semi-finalist clubs who are to compete for the Ames prize today and tomorrow are the Scott Club, the Ellenborough Club, Cooley, and Parke-Warren. Two third-year law students will uphold the legal skill of each club...
...issue whether the court will furnish a substitute for war, it is well to examine the actual jurisdiction of the court, as provided in its statute. As is well known, its jurisdiction is limited exclusively to legal questions; over political questions the court has no jurisdiction. It is also well to remember that the Council of the league, when they received the report of the Committee of Jurists which recommended obligatory jurisdiction of the legal issues mentioned promptly struck out the provision for obligatory jurisdiction. The larger Powers were still unwilling to submit automatically the most legal of questions...
...more important still is the fact that the issues that have led to war between nations are rarely purely legal in character. They are political and economic, of a type which law cannot yet reach, and it is precisely these questions over which the court has no jurisdiction. Professor Hudson, one of the most ardent advocates of the League and the court, admits in his recent book that "It is chiefly with reference to non-juridical questions that nations are likely to fight. For the most part, the kind of case that comes before the courts, the kind of case...
...view of the limited jurisdiction of the court, consisting of what have been termed justiciable or strictly legal questions, the reluctance of the larger Powers to make jurisdiction in these cases obligatory is to be regretted. It is an indication of the fact that we are still a long way from the substitution of amicable for belligerent methods in the settlement of international disputes. One of the necessary weaknesses of the court consists in the very fact that it is not likely to prove an effective agency in removing for a long time to come the bane of war from...