It might be very competent and very proper in the accomplishment of the object in view, for the treaty-making power to suspend the operations of all laws for the punishment of offenders save in the cases where the acts were crimes, by the universal judgment of mankind.
Jacobs suggests that the treaty-making power could justifiably suspend laws regarding punishment for certain crimes.
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