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But just in proportion as a foreign nation anticipates the fact, or imagines the fact, or substitutes its own passions for the fact, it transcends the well-defined bounds of International Law.
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Sumner warns that when a foreign nation anticipates or substitutes its own views for facts, it violates international law.
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