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Separatism and the Democratic Entitlement in International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

M.N.S. Sellers
M.N.S. Sellers*
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Center for International and Comparative Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
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Separatism and the Democratic Entitlement
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 92 , 1998 , pp. 116 - 122
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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References

1 Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli Ac Pacis I.iii., 52-53 (1646).

2 E.g., Franck, Thomas M., The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance, 86 AJIL 46 (1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Steiner, Henry, Political Participation as a Human Right, 1 Harv. Hum. Rts. Y. B. 77 (1988)Google Scholar.

3 Franck, supra note 2, at 55.

4 E.g., Franck, Thomas M., Is Personal Freedom a Western Value?, 91 AJIL 593 (1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (advocating individual “autonomy”).

5 See Sellers, Mortimer, Republican Impartiality, 11 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 273 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Pettit, Philip, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (1997)Google Scholar.

6 Sellers, Mortimer, The Actual Validity of Law, 37 Am. J. Juris. 283 (1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 E.g., The Federalist 51 (James Madison) (1787), in The Federalist Papers, 322 (Isaac Kramnick, ed., 1987).

8 Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis III. vi. 26; De Re Publica I. xxv. 39.

9 See Mortimer Sellers, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law (1998); J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975).

10 E.g., The Federalist 9 (Alexander Hamilton) (1787) in The Federalist Papers 119 (Isaac Kramnick ed., 1987); see Mortimer Sellers, American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution (1994).

11 John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America LXXI (1787-1788); CICERO, supra n. 8, De Re Publica I.xxv. 39.

12 CICERO, supra note 8, De Oficiis III. xvii. 69.

13 Immanuel Kant, Zum Ewigen Frieden (1795); Christian Wolff, Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum (1764).

14 U.S. Const, art. IV, § 4.

15 Alexis De Tocqueville, De La Democratie En Amerique (1835): “Du principe de la souveraineté du peuple en Amérique” (ch. 4).

16 See, e.g., Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension, June 29, 1990, reprinted in 29 I.L.M. 1305; Franck, supra note 2, at 67.

17 CSCE, supra note 16, at 1309: “[T]he will of the people, freely and fairly expressed through periodic and genuine elections, is the basis of the authority and legitimacy of all governments.” Id. at 1309.

18 See Pettit, supra note 5, at chs. 6, 7.

19 See The Federalist Papers, supra note 7, at X, 126-27.

20 KANT, supra note 5. See his earlier discussion of the “erster Definitivartikel zum ewigen Frieden.”

21 Id., at 16; Titus Livius Ab Urbe Condita II. 1.

22 Sellers, Mortimer, Republican Principles in International Law, 11 Conn. J. Int’l L. 403 (1996)Google Scholar.

23 Grotius, supra note 1, at III. xv.l.

24 id. at I.iii.3.

25 Id. at II.ix.l.

26 Id. at I.iv.8.

27 ld. at l.iv.ll.

28 Emmerich De Vattel, Le Droit Des Gens Ou Principes De La Loi Naturelle Appliqués a La Conduite Et Aux Affaires Des Nations Et Des Souverains I.iv.38 (1758).

29 Id. at I.iv.39.

30 Id. at l.iv. 5l.

31 Id. at Préliminaires 1.

32 Id. at Préliminaires 2.

33 Id. at Préliminaires 3.

34 Id. at Préliminaires 4.

35 Id. at Préliminaires 24-27.

36 Cf. UN Charter art. 55.

37 CICERO, De Re Publica, supra note 8, at I.xxv. 39.

38 GROTIUS, supra note 1, at II.ix.3.

39 Id., II.ix.6; Vattel, supra note 28, at I.16.194.

40 Under the doctrine uti possidetis juris.

41 Pettit, supra note 5; Sellers, supra note 9.