United States Supreme Court the Protype of a World Court (Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, No. 21)
Pamphlet
1915 · Baltimore
by Taft, William Howard
Baltimore: American Society for Judicial Settlement, 1915. Pamphlet. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 24p. This is the printed copy of the address given by Taft before the World Court Congress held in Cleveland, May 12, 1915). The idea that the world needed an international judicial system. The issue of war and its complicated effects often cannot be resolved by the nations. Taft shows how what the US Supreme Court was in one country arbitrated issues involving states and/or regions to solve comple problems. Important in background for call for a World Court by the last half of the Twentieth Century. (Inventory #: 012338)