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1840What is PropertyReligion, laws, marriage, were the privileges of freemen, and, in the beginning, of nobles only. Dii majorum gentium—gods of the patrician families; jus gentium—right of nations; that is, of families or nobles. The slave and the plebeian had no families; their children were treated as the offspring of animals. Beasts they were born, beasts they must live.1866The American RepublicThe knowledge of the natural law has been transmitted from Adam to us through two channels—reason, which is in every man, and in immediate relation with the Creator, and the traditions of the primitive instruction embodied in language and what the Romans call jus gentium, or law common to all civilized nations.1984The Hunt for Red OctoberAdmiralty is jus gentium—the same legal codes theoretically apply to all countries.Labels: Joseph-Pierre Proudhon, O. A. Brownson, Tom Clancy
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