...Chief Justice Marshall in the case of The Antelope, 10 Wheat. 66, 122, 6 L. Ed.*268 : " ' No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. . . . It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each legislates...

...tend to prove a statement made by Chief Justice Marshall in another famous case that "no principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the perfect equality of nations." As indicated at the very beginning of the article, America is dealing with partners and Allies, not...

...tend to prove a statement made by Chief Justice Marshall in another famous case that "no principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the perfect equality of nations." As indicated at the very beginning of the article, America is dealing with partners and Allies, not...

...Republics, their equal rights under the law of nations. Said Chief Justice Marshall: " No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the perfect equality of nations. ... It results from this equality that no one can rightfully impose a rule upon another." At the first...

...quarter of the Nineteenth Century, when Chief Justice Marshall emphasized it in the words, " No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the perfect equality of nations." 2 In this first quarter of the Twentieth Century, there is not only a disposition to deny the reality...

...independence of States"140. And in The Antelope (1825), in an oft-repeated dictum, he declared: "No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than...equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another141." Principle More Honoured in the Breach than in the Observance Despite all the assertions...

...vote of the largest and most powerful". Chief Justice Marshall's famous dictum states : "No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than...equality that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another243." This may lead to the temptation to accept the egalitarian approach : to States as to men....

...part of a state's policy. When Chief Justice Marshall declared in The Antelope case that 'no principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the perfect equality of nations,' he was expressing the legal view which agreed with the main current of American public sentiment that...

...universal in its reach only if it were universally accepted, and as Marshall remarked, "no principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations":3 It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each...

...vote of the "largest and most powerful". To recall the famous dictum of Justice Marshall "No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than...of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It is from this equality that no-one can rightfully impose a rule on another."6 Reaching into new fields...