| 1924 - 680 pages
...it is worth remembering for Secretary Olney's restatement of the great Doctrine. 'To-day,' he wrote, 'the United States is practically sovereign on this Continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.' It is not necessary to inquire carefully to what... | |
| 1897 - 402 pages
...the regard and respect of other States it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically Sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good-will... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 976 pages
...by a judicial tribunal, was something not to be tolerated. In the course of this despatch Mr. Olney said: To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. All the advantages of this superiority are at once... | |
| Arthur Irwin Street - 1895 - 50 pages
...other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. SUPREME ON THIS CONTINENT. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines Its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1902 - 886 pages
...inexpedient"; that the interests " of Europe are irreconcilably diverse from those of America"; that " to-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition"; that it is "master of the situation." V. >!.. VII.... | |
| 1896 - 800 pages
...American states, and, so far as I can see, over the American colonies of European powers. His words are: "To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition." Leading up to this imperial utterance, he had said... | |
| Rowland Rugg - 1896 - 80 pages
...States it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. DOCTRINE OF AMERICAN PUBLIC LAW. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this Continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why ? It is not because of the pure friendship or... | |
| 1896 - 464 pages
...re-- gard and respect of other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why ? It is not because of the pure friendship or... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - 1896 - 338 pages
...the regard and respect of other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good-will... | |
| 1896 - 756 pages
...interest in contesting in behalf of all the other states, or, as Secretary Olney has recently put it; — "The United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon thc subjeets to which it confines its interposition." But Professor Von Holst does not rest on the... | |
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