Great Universal Law

[Esoteric_Christian]

I would like for us to explore into what the meaning might be.

What it meant then, and what it means now.

The meaning of?!

"The law of nations is enforced by the municipal law which may facilitate or improve the execution of its decisions[...] "

I would surmise that this would be the decisions in determination of the Law of Nations' natural jurisprudence.

"Life of Vattel: Emer1 de Vattel’s Le droit des gens. Ou Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqués à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (The Law of Nations, or Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns) (1758) was the most important book on the law of nations in the eighteenth century. It was in great measure thanks to this work that the practical and theoretical influence of natural jurisprudence was extended down through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. " [Source]

[...] "provided the great universal law remains unaltered 2 US (2 Dall.) 160, 162 (Pa. 1792) "


I would imagine the 'great univeral law' would be consent.

The Law of Nations, is in fact, enforced at the municipal level. Peoples are expected to achieve self-determination within the framework of a given hosting nation-state provided that the state whose government represents the whole of the people or peoples resident within its territory, on a basis of equality and without discrimination, and respects the principles of self?determination, must provide access to the right to self-detemrination within its internal arrangements, and for this reason, such safeguards at the munipal level must be codified within such laws.

Like Hobbes and Locke, Vattel also argued that "liberty and independence belong to man by his very nature, and ... they can not be taken from him without his consent." Id.

As he noted later, "States are composed of men,their policies are determined by men, and these men are subject to the natural law under whatever capacity they act." Id. at 4.

[9. E. DE VATTEL, THE LAW OF NATIONS OR THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL LAW: AP-PLIED TO THE CONDUCT AND TO THE AFFAIRS OF NATIONS AND OF SOVEREIGNS, 3 (trans.,Oceana Publications, 1964).]