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Power to Decide, None to Enforce
Rosenberg, James N. | December 9, 1925 issue

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History does, after all, repeat itself. The question whether the U.S. shall enter the World Court, and on what terms, has aspects strangely similar to one of the most puzzling problems which faced the gentlemen who, in the hot summer of 1781, wrote the Constitution of the United States. That problem revolved around the Supreme Court. It will be recalled that the thirteen original States were thirteen high and mighty chauvinistic, independent nations. Prior to the Revolution disputes between the Colonies and there were some sharp ones, had been referred to the Crown. Under the Confederation, machinery had been set up similar to that of the Hague Tribunal for arbitration of controversies between the States.

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INTERNATIONAL courts; CONSTITUTIONS; ARBITRATION, International; INTERNATIONAL relations; HISTORY; UNITED States
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