 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 sider
...or do they pledge the faith of the United States to pass acts which shall ratify and confirm them? A treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations,...to the instrument In the United States a different prin104 cipleis established. Our constitution declares a treat; to be the law of the land. It is, consequently,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - 628 sider
...or do they pledge the faith of the United States to pass acts which shall ratify and confirm them ' A treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations,...to the instrument. In the United States a different prin104 LAW CASES, &c. ciple is established. Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 sider
...thereupon, Mardi 17, 1840, in which the subject is ably considered. Acts of Уч. 1839-40, p. 155. (1)"A treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations,...accomplished, especially so far as its operation is ¿n/Va-territorial ; but is carried into execution by the sovereign power of the respective parties... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 1068 sider
...enemy's ships shall make enemy's goods. The Nereide, Bennet, Master, 9 Cranch, 388 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 439. A treaty is, in its nature, a contract between two...power of the respective parties to the instrument. Foster et a], v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 314 ; United States p. Arredondo, 6 Peters, 735. to be regarded... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1847 - 490 sider
...they seem to have adopted the same principle. In Foster v. Nelson, 2 Peters, 314 they declare that a treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations, not a legislative act. It does not generally affect of itself the object to be accomplished, especially so far as its operation is infraterritorial,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 sider
...authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state. Webster. Л treaty is, in its nature, a contract between two nations...power of the respective parties to the instrument. Marshall, CJ, 2 Peters' R. 314. In the United States, a different principle is established. Our constitution... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - 1855 - 938 sider
...History of England from the Peace of Utrecht, vol. ip 24. 2 Kent's Comment. vol. ip 285, 5th ed. (a) [A treaty is, in its nature, a contract between two nations, not a legislative act, and does not, generally, effect of itself the object to be accompli-hed, but is carried into execution... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 736 sider
...on Const., sec. 1838. And the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the same principle : " A treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations, not a legislative act." * * * " In the United States a different principle is established. Our Constitution declares a treaty... | |
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A treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations, not a legislative act. It does not generally effect, of itself, the object to be accomplished, especially so far as its operation is infra-territorial ; but is carried into execution by the sovereign... 
