it seems that George Washington was the first
prominent Founding Father to truly appreciate Addison’s legal talents. It began on November 1798 when Addison sent the former President a copy of his most recent charge entitled Liberty of Speech and the Press.
The charge addressed the Alien &
Sedition Acts, including whether the President had the power to remove any alien considered “dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States.”
Incorporating Emer De Vattel’s Law of Nations,
Addison believed that (quoting Vattel)“every government must be [the] sole judge of what is necessary to be done, for its own safety or advantage, within its own territory.”
Mr. Rogers this is domestic not international.
page 538.
http://www.clevelandstatelawreview.org/58/Issue%203/Charles.pdf
“Addison believed that (quoting Vattel)“every government must be [the] sole judge of what is necessary to be done, for its own safety or advantage, within its own territory.””
Do you agree with Addison and Vattel? Would there have been an American Revolution if it is a true statement?