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American law and American courts could not deal with such a condition, insisted Marshall, but British law and courts could and the treaty bound America to deliver the criminal into British hands.
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Beveridge emphasizes that American law could not address certain crimes, but British law could, underlining treaty obligations.
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The existing American system was a very masterpiece of weakness.
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