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" ... government is founded — that every one may govern itself according to whatever form it pleases, and change these forms at its own will; and that it may transact its business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king,... "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 210
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Russian Debts and Russian Reconstruction: A Study of the Relation of Russia ...

Leo Pasvolsky, Harold Glenn Moulton - Business & Economics - 1924 - 272 pages
...whatever organ it thinks proper whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded." It was undoubtedly this principle which was invoked by the representative of the Department of State,...
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America's Place in the World

Herbert Adams Gibbons - Europe - 1924 - 248 pages
...whatever organ it thinks proper, whether King, Convention, Assembly, Committee, President, or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only essential thing to be regarded. President Washington evidently thought that there were other essential...
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National Isolation an Illusion: Political Independence Not Isolation ...

Perry Belmont - Political parties - 1925 - 652 pages
...whatever organ it thinks proper, whether King, convention, assembly, committee, President or whatever else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded." The phrase in Jefferson's first inaugural address, ' ' peace, commerce, and honest friendship with...
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The Lawless Law of Nations: An Exposition of the Prevailing Arbitrary ...

Sterling Edwin Edmunds - Civil rights - 1925 - 484 pages
...whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, President or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.4 The Law of Nations, heretofore the prop of kingly power, actually contained no such tenet;...
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A History of American Foreign Policy

John Holladay Latané - United States - 1927 - 754 pages
...thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president, or whatever else it may chuse. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.30 The passage just quoted is also an admirable statement of the philosophical basis of the...
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Neutrality, Peace Legislation, and Our Foreign Policy: Hearings ..., Parts 1-22

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Arms transfers - 1939 - 706 pages
...whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president, or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded." The proposal that we shall dictate to other countries how they shall organize themselves not only is...
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

United States. Department of State - United States - 1938 - 1412 pages
...whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded." It was undoubtedly this principle which was invoked by the representative of the Department of State,...
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American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action, Volume 3

Hilton Proctor Goss - United States - 1955 - 334 pages
...p. 191. 1 See pp. 10 13 above. • See especially pp. 25-26, 27-29, 47, 51-52 and 68-70 beknr. . . . The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.10 In other words, recognition should be based upon actual, realistic, de facto control and...
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Digest of International Law, Volume 2

Marjorie Millace Whiteman - International law - 1963 - 1346 pages
...proper, whether King, Convention, Assembly, Committee, President, or anything else it may chuse, — the will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.' "Before the close of the 10th Century, we frequently added the express requirement that the new government...
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Digest of International Law, Volume 2

Marjorie Millace Whiteman - International law - 1963 - 1430 pages
...proper, whether King, Convention, Assembly, Committee, President or anything else it may chuse,—the will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.' "Before the close of the 19th Century, we frequently added the express requirement that the new government...
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