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Hugo Grotius On the Law of War and Peace : Student Edition.
An edited and annotated edition of one of the classic works of Western legal and political thought.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on the text; Prologue to the three books On the Law of War and Peace; Book I On the Law of War and Peace; 1 What is war? What is law?; 1. Scope of the treatise; 2. Definition of war, and origin of the word; 3. Law divided into rectorial law and equatorial law; 4. Division of rights into faculties and aptitudes; 5. Faculties divided into powers, property rights, and contractual rights; 6. Division of legal rights into private and public.
- 8. On expletive justice and attributive justice9. Law as divided into the law of nature and volitional law; 10. Definition of the law of nature; 11. Whether instinct constitutes another kind of law; 12. How the content of the law of nature is proved; 13. Division of volitional law into human and divine; 14. Human law as divided into municipal law and the law of nations; 15. Divine law as either universal or as peculiar to a single people; 2 Whether it is ever lawful to wage war; 1. Whether war is in conflict with the law of nature.
- 3. General agreement that war is not in conflict with the law of nature4. Whether war is in conflict with the law of nations; 5. Whether war is in conflict with the divine volitional law before the time of the Gospel; 9. The position of the early Christians on the lawfulness of war; 3 Distinction between public and private war; explanation of sovereignty (summi imperii); 1. Division of war into public and private; 2. Whether all private war is impermissible; 3. On the permissibility of private war according to the law of the Gospel; 4. Division of public war into formal and less formal.
- 5. On public war waged by the authority of a subordinate public official6. In what the civil power consists; 7. On sovereignty (summa potestas); 8. Whether sovereignty always resides in the people; 9. Whether there is always a mutual dependence between king and people; 10. The distinguishing of similar words which differ in meaning; 11. Distinguishing rights from the manner of possessing rights; 12. On sovereign power held absolutely; 13. On sovereign power not held absolutely; 14. On the holding of intermediate governmental authority absolutely.
- 15. The difference in mode of appointing regents in kingdoms16. On limitation of sovereignty by a promise; 17. The division of sovereignty; 18. Whether there is division of sovereignty when laws are approved by assemblies; 20. True examples of mixed sovereignty; 21. Whether sovereignty is compatible with the obligation of an unequal alliance; 22. Whether sovereignty is compatible with the payment of tribute; 23. Whether sovereignty is compatible with obligations of feudal law; 24. Distinction between the right of sovereignty and the exercise of the right; 4 War of subjects against superiors.