...Foster 4 Elam v. Neilaon, 2 Peters, 314. In the United States a different principle is established. Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of...justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, wherever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of...

...Foster & Elatn v. Neilson, 2 Peters, 314. In the United States a different principle is established. Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of...justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, wherever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of...

...the respective parties to the instrument. In the United States a different principle is established. Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in the courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, 1 2 Peters' R. 253, 314. whenever...

...instrument. In the United States a different principle is established. Our Constitution declares a treatv to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in the courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, l 2 Peters' R. 253, 314. whenever...

...justice can administer no effectual redress ; for, when the terms of a stipulation import a contract, or when either of the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, and not to the judicial, department ; and the legislature...

...instrument. Marshall, CJ 2 Peters1 R. 314. In the United States, a different principle is established. Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of...the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, not the judicial, department, and the legislature must execute...

...an act of congress." And in Foster v. Neilson (2 Pet. 253, 314), he repeated this in substance : " Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of...itself without the aid of any legislative provision." So in Whitney v. Robertson (124 US 190) : " By the Constitution a treaty is placed on the same footing,...

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...Foster v. Neilson, 2 Pet. 253, the same eminent jurist suid that a treaty of the United States is " to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent...itself without the aid of any legislative provision." Whether therefore a law be established by the action of Congress, or by an exercise of the treaty power,...