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To be copied "homines constituit, vocatur jus gentium:"
he sends us to a non entity: he refers us to a
rule which never did, and, I fear, never will
exist.

The fact is, the terms law of nations, however allowable
the Phrase may be in common conversation,
should never find a place in a philosophical
discussion of law: and that for this
plain reason, that nations have no common
superior upon earth, from whom —
they can receive a Law. [Note to the end of The English language
wants a term to express the idea,
conveyed by the french tongue term of droit des
gens. and the French writers sho have not availed themselves
of the possession of the term as they might have done
gens.] au. end of note

'Tis strange how this confusion of terms
disfigures & pe even arguments which had would

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