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Its effect is to enable the Government to prohibit and punish, from abundant caution, many acts on the part of its subjects for which it would incur no international liability.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland explains that the legislation allows the government to prevent actions by its subjects that could lead to international liability.
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