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1 James Brown Scott, The Project of a Permanent Court of International Justice and Resolutions of the Advisory Committee of Jurists: Report and Commentary i (1920)

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Justice and Resolutions of the Advisory
Committee of Jurists
REPORT AND COMMENTARY
BY
JAMES BROWN SCOTT
Secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Technical Delegate of the United States to the Second Hague Conference, 1907
Technical Delegate of the United States to the Conference at Paris, 1919

The usual remedies between nations, war and diplomacy, being precluded by the federal union
[of the United States], it is necessary that a judicial remedy should supply their place. The
Supreme Court of the Federation dispenses international law, and is the first great example
of what is now one of the most prominent wants of civilized society, a real International Tri-
bunal.-John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Reoresentath. Go-vernment (1861), pages 305-6.
PUBLISHED BY THE ENDOWMENT
WASHINGTON
1920