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That principle has been reduced to form among the maxims of our Common Law,--Nemo debet esse judex in propria sua causa.
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Sumner emphasizes the legal principle that one cannot be a judge in their own case, a fundamental aspect of justice.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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.
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