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This is in accordance with all the authorities and unbroken usage; but it has peculiar value at this moment, because it is the text of Blackstone.
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Sumner highlights the significance of Blackstone's text in understanding legal traditions.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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