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"What, then, is the authority of these judgments over dissentients? It is the authority of the law that is prior to any international institution and prior to any international convention, the "law of nations," an aspect of the natural right if God within creation, confirmed as such by the time-honored customs and usages of states in their dealings with one another."

"Properly understood, the idea of a world-people is a theological and eschatological one: it envisages mankind set free from sin to attend in worship to the ultimate "Thou", who is God."

"The representative bears the people's image, makes the people visible and tangible, to itself and to others. Yet the representative does not bring the people into existence, but simply makes it appear."