The principle is maintained, however, that this nation is its own judge when to accord the rights of belligerency, either to a people struggling to free themselves from a government they believe to be oppressive or to independent nations at war with each other.
Grant asserts that the United States has the authority to determine when to recognize the rights of belligerency for oppressed peoples.
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