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The Supreme Court and the Law of Nations: Owing a Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Harry A. Blackmun*
Affiliation:
Supreme Court of the United States

Abstract

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994 

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References

1 2 Dall. 419, 474 (1793).

2 Art. I, §8, cl. 10.

3 Art. VI, cl. 2.

4 Murray v. Schooner Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch 64, 118.

5 See Head Money cases, 112 U.S. 580 (1884); Whitney v. Robertson, 124 U.S. 190, 194 (1888); The Chinese Exclusion case, 130 U.S. 581, 600, 602–03 (1889).

6 175 U.S. 677 (1900).

7 112 S. Ct. 2188 (1992), reprinted in 31 ILM 900 (1992).

8 Id. at 2193.

9 Id. at 2206.

10 Id. at 2206, note 6, quoting State v. Ebrahim, S. AFR. L. REP. (Apr.–June 1991).

11 Id. at 2565.

12 Id., emphasis added.

13 113 S. Ct. 2577 (1993) (dissenting opinion).

14 Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 100 (1958).

15 Id. at 101.

16 Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977).

17 Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982).

18 Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1987).

19 Id. at 830.

20 Id. at 868, note 14.

21 492 U.S. 361 (1989).

22 Id. at 369, note 1.

23 Id. at 389.

24 Id. at 390.

23 Louis Henkin, How Nations Behave 47 (2d ed. 1979).