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Treaty-Making under the Authority of the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

James Brown Scott*
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Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1934

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1 Hutchinson, Thomas, The History of Massachusetts, from the First Settlement Thereof in 1628, until the Year 1750 (3rd ed., Salem, 1795, Vol. I, p. 119)Google Scholar.

2 The quotation above is to be found in Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, by Bishop Meade (Philadelphia, 1897), and was taken from the manuscript of no less a person than William Lee, from which it appears that the contracting parties, doubtless considering themselves equals for the purpose of this diplomatic document, were Cromwell’s England and an American dominion. Vol. II, p. 137. The treaty itself is to be found in the Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1658/9, and published in Richmond in 1915, pp. 79-81.

3 The Huchinson Papers (Albany, 1865, The Prince Society Edition), Vol. I, pp. 164-5Google Scholar; Winthrop, John, The History of New England, from 1630 to 1649, Vol. II, p. 197 (Boston, 1825)Google Scholar.

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7 The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution as recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, collected and revised from contemporary publications by Jonathan Elliott (Philadelphia, 1891), Vol. IV, pp. 230-231.

8 3 Dall. 199.

9 3 Dall. 199, 224.

10 Ibid.

11 Department of State, Notes to Foreign Legations, Vol. 4.

12 Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements between the United States of America and Other Powers—1776-1909, compiled by Malloy, William M. (Washington, 1910), Vol. II, pp. 1514, 1517-18Google Scholar.

13 37 Stat. 828, 847.

14 United States v. Shauver, 214 Fed. 154; United States v. McCullagh, 221 Fed. 288.

15 39 Stat. 1702.

16 40 Stat. 755.

17 252 U. S. 416.

18 Address of Abraham Lincoln before the Cooper Union, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860.

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20 Letters of a Federal Farmer, by Richard Henry Lee—Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Paul Leicester Ford (Brooklyn, 1888), pp. 311-312 [pp. 29-30 of original pamphlet].