Excerpt from The American Philosophy of Government and Its Effect on International Relations So long as the people of each nation remained unenlightened and were without full power to express their ideas through representative institutions, the war-game of the balance of power ruled international politics, and international disputes were disputes concerning the rights of nations, and particularly on points of national honor. The citizens of each nation had only partial and indefinite rights at home, and citizens of one ...
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Excerpt from The American Philosophy of Government and Its Effect on International Relations So long as the people of each nation remained unenlightened and were without full power to express their ideas through representative institutions, the war-game of the balance of power ruled international politics, and international disputes were disputes concerning the rights of nations, and particularly on points of national honor. The citizens of each nation had only partial and indefinite rights at home, and citizens of one nation had no rights in another nation or against a foreign government. A person abroad had only certain privileges, and these usually were based on treaty. Breaches of treaty were considered to involve the national honor not of the nation breaking the treaty, but of the other nation, and led to war or to a new disposition of alliances according to the rules of the war-game. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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