If there be no Prize Court, then justice must fail; and with this failure tumbles in fact the whole wretched pretension of ocean belligerence, except in the galvanism of a Queen’s proclamation or a Cabinet concession.
Sumner argues that without a Prize Court, the legitimacy of ocean belligerence collapses.
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