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The Supreme Court of the United States stands at the head of the nation’s judicial system. Created in Article III of the Constitution of 1787 but obscured by the other branches of government during the first few decades of its history, the Court came into its own as a co-equal branch in the early 19th century.
Until 1914, secession — which may be defined as the creation of a State by the use or threat of force without the consent of the former sovereign — was the most conspicuous and probably the most common method of the creation of new States.
The following table notes the names of the courts in the states and territories of the United States. Listed are the principal trial courts of general jurisdiction, the principal intermediate appellate courts, and the state supreme courts.
This chapter will take the general characteristics of States listed in The Creation of States in International Law and discuss these, albeit not quite in the Crawfordian style, with a view to the past of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
27 Οκτ 2009 · Written in 1777 and stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states. It was not ratified until March 1, 1781. Under...
This chapter examines what causes war, focusing on war, or armed conflict, between sovereign states. The main part of this chapter is divided into the following four sections: ‘War, sovereignty and sociability’, ‘Necessary causes of war?’, ‘Regular causal paths to war?’, and ‘Contributory causes of war’.
The basic contention in the war making–state making model is that states are inherently organizations that make war and collect tribute in order to make more war (Pollack, 2009, p. 291): The state is a political organization that claims a monopoly on violence within a given territory.
