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Monroe Doctrine Its Status, John F. Simmons
Monroe Doctrine Its Status, John F. Simmons
Michigan Law Review
In 1895. President Cleveland in his message to Congress in regard to what has come to be known as the "Venezuela affair" said the Monroe Doctrine "has its place in the code of international law as certainly and as securely as if it were specifically mentioned." To test the accuracy of this statement we must determine as closely as possible what the Monroe Doctrine is and what is the correct meaning of the term "code of international law." Having settled our definitions the issue will be clearly defined and its discussion possibly profitable.
Privileges Of Ambassadors And Foreign Ministers, Charles Noble Gregory
Privileges Of Ambassadors And Foreign Ministers, Charles Noble Gregory
Michigan Law Review
The United States receives diplomatic representatives from thirty-seven nations and accredits her representatives to them in return. Six of these on each side are of the highest rank, namely, "Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary," being those received from and accredited to the five great powers of Europe, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, and to our sister Republic of Mexico. The rest are almost without exception "Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary," standing in the second rank of "Les Employés Diplomatiques," to use the term adopted at the Congress of Vienna (1815) where the relative rank was determined which attaches to …