American Civil War | Vietnam War | American Revolutionary War | Law & Order | Cold War | Iraq War | War of 1812 | Spanish Civil War | Korean War | Coulomb's law | Allies of World War II | English Civil War | Gulf War | Franco-Prussian War | Harvard Law School | Statute Law Revision Act 1948 | Pacific War | war | Second Boer War | Peninsular War | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | law | United States Department of War | Second Sino-Japanese War | Crimean War | Thirty Years' War | Spanish-American War | Trojan War | Union (American Civil War) | Yale Law School |
Justice Samuel Chase took a separate approach to the same conclusion, noting that in a perfect war "...operations are restricted and regulated by the jus belli, forming a part of the law of nations," but in an imperfect war "its extent and operation depend on our municipal laws." With Congress authorizing hostilities, this was an imperfect war against France, making them the enemy and validating the 1799 law.
The Convention brought together many people including experts Richard A. Falk, expert on the international law of war crimes and Robert Jay Lifton, a psychohistorian.
In his De jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres ("Three Books on the Law of War and Peace") of 1625, and drawing from the Bible and from the St. Augustine's just war theory, he argued that nations as well as persons ought to be governed by universal principle based on morality and divine justice.
From September 1972 to August 1975, General Blaz served as Chief, United Nations and Maritime Matters Branch, International Negotiations Division, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. In this assignment, he represented the Joint Chiefs of Staff on U.S. Delegations to several international multi-lateral negotiations in Helsinki (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) and Geneva (Law of War) and was an action officer on Law of the Sea matters.