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The Genocide Convention And The Constitution, Myres S. Mcdougal, Richard Arens
The Genocide Convention And The Constitution, Myres S. Mcdougal, Richard Arens
Vanderbilt Law Review
What is traditional for common crimes can scarcely be oppressive innovation for mass-murder. Even freedom of communication is not, furthermore, an absolute in democratic preference: security and human decency must likewise have their place.
It is no little irony that argument must be made in support of a convention to suppress genocide. "The spectacle," writes a contemporary journal of opinion, "of modern man explaining his right to existence is an odd one." The Genocide Convention is but one of many interrelated measures in a world-wide program to secure peace and respect for the dignity of the individual human being. Rational …