 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - 1860 - 412 páginas
...quirements of the international code ; and, consequently, is witheut the pale of congressional powers. The power " to define and punish offenses against the law of nations" was confided by the Constitntion to Congress, not to the execntive or judiciary, for the sole purpose... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1864 - 480 páginas
...this sort can not sometimes be easily avoided, and are to be seen elsewhere in the Constitution. Thus the power ' to define and punish offenses against the law of nations, includes the power afterwards particularly expressed, ' to make rules concerning captures,' &c., from... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on War Claims - 1875 - 448 páginas
...theater of war, the Constitution, in view of the fact that war would or might exist, gives to Congress the power — " to define and punish. " offenses against the law of nations; " " to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land... | |
 | David Hastings Mason - 1884 - 178 páginas
...this sort cannot sometimes be easily avoided, and are to be seen elsewhere in the Constitution. Thus the power "to define and punish offenses against the law of nations" includes the power afterward particularly expressed, " to make rules concerning captures, etc., from... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1886 - 722 páginas
...constitutionality of the statute was attacked on the ground that the power to punish the counterfeiting of foreign coin was not granted by the constitution,...and punish " offenses against the law of nations." ' There can be no doubt of the correctness of this decision. When the 1 Weaver v. Fegely, 29 Pa. St.... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1892 - 260 páginas
...this sort cannot sometimes be easily avoided, and are to be seen elsewhere in the Constitution. Thus, the power ' to define and punish offenses against the law of nations ' includes the power afterwards particularly expressed ' to make rules concerning captures, etc., from... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1905 - 952 páginas
...safe-conduct, and one who committed such an offense was indictable at common law.516 In this country, under the power to define and punish offenses against the law of nations, congress has passed an act expressly punishing, by imprisonment and fine, any person "who violates... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - 1901 - 796 páginas
...law of the individual states. The Constitutinn of the United States specifically vests in Congress the power to define and punish offenses against the law of nations. Professor Snow also gives the sources of modern international law as follows: By the sources of modern... | |
 | 1908 - 1054 páginas
...the Supreme Court in The Lottawana Case. The Federal Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power to define and punish offenses against the law of nations, and to make rules concerning captures on land and water. Furthermore, it is declared that treaties... | |
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I, section 8, of our federal constitution which clothes the congress with the power "to define and punish offenses against the law of nations... 
