{"id":533558,"date":"2010-04-18T23:54:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=12069"},"modified":"2010-04-18T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:54:50","slug":"george-washington%e2%80%99s-220-year-overdue-library-book-%e2%80%9cthe-law-of-nations%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533558","title":{"rendered":"George Washington\u2019s 220 Year Overdue Library Book: \u201cThe Law of Nations\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In all the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/apr\/18\/george-washington-library-new-york\">amused press notices<\/a> about George Washington&#8217;s (very) overdue library books, one small detail is worth noting.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The library&#8217;s ledgers show that Washington took out the books on 5 October 1789, some five months into his presidency at a time when New York was still the capital. They were an essay on international affairs called <strong>Law of Nations<\/strong> and the twelfth volume of a 14-volume collection of debates from the English House of Commons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Emphasis added). \u00a0Actually, the &#8220;Law of Nations&#8221; as most of our readers know, is the 18th century term for what today we call international law. \u00a0And &#8220;Law of Nations&#8221; may in fact refer to Emmerich de Vattel&#8217;s &#8220;<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/vattel\/vattel.htm\">The Law of Nations&#8221;<\/a>, perhaps the most influential treatise on international law among the American Founding generation. Was ol&#8217; GW researching his Neutrality Act Proclamation?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku In all the amused press notices about George Washington&#8217;s (very) overdue library books, one small detail is worth noting. The library&#8217;s ledgers show that Washington took out the books on 5 October 1789, some five months into his presidency at a time when New York was still the capital. They were an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}