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The act of state doctrine entered into American jurisprudence in the case Underhill v.Hernandez, 168 U.S. 250 (1897). [5] In an 1892 revolution, General José Manuel "Mocho" Hernández expelled the existing Venezuelan government and took control of Ciudad Bolívar, where plaintiff Underhill lived and ran a waterworks system for the city.
Southern states had a long tradition of using states' rights doctrine since the late eighteenth century to support slavery. [16] A major Southern argument in the 1850s was that federal law to ban the expansion of slavery into the territories discriminated against states that allowed slavery, making them second-class states.
A body of water under the jurisdiction of a state or nation, to which access is not permitted, or is tightly regulated. / ˈ m eɪ r i ˈ k l ɔː z ə m / mare liberum: open sea A body of water open to all. Typically a synonym for International Waters, or in other legal parlance, the "High Seas". mea culpa: through my fault An acknowledgement ...
Bound volumes of the American Journal of International Law at the University of Münster in Germany. International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of rules, norms, legal customs and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generally do, obey in their mutual relations.
Act of state doctrine, act of a sovereign state; State occasion; Exercise of the royal prerogative was formerly called an "act of state" State action, doctrine that only state actions are subject to regulation under the US Constitution; State action immunity doctrine, exemption from liability for engaging in antitrust violations
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The first full articulation of the Catholic doctrine on the principles of the relationship of the Catholic Church to the state (at the time, the Eastern Roman Empire) is contained in the document Famuli vestrae pietatis, written by Pope Gelasius I to the Emperor, which states that the Church and the state should work together in society, that ...
Statolatry is a term formed from the word "state" and a suffix derived from the Latin and Greek word latria, meaning "worship". It first appeared in Giovanni Gentile 's Doctrine of Fascism , published in 1931 under Mussolini 's name, and was also mentioned in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (1971) sometime between 1931–1932, while he was ...