The United States and the Origins of the World Court

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ID4294269
AuthorsDavid S Patterson (corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume91
Issue2
Pages279-295
Publication date1976-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Science Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2148413
OpenAlexW2327156829
LanguageEN
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When the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference completed the Covenant of the League of Nations in early 1919, article 14 provided that the Council of the League should formulate ... plans for the establishment of a Permanent Court of International Justice. The general statement of the jurisdiction of the world court (as it was commonly called) and the omission of details for its composition and procedure in this article suggested that the new judicial body was a kind of afterthought and distinctly secondary in importance to the League.' Those Americans who had most vigorously championed the creation of a world court before and during World War I welcomed the provision for the permanent court, while simultaneously expressing strong reservations about its parent body, the League of Nations. Their attitude reflected their priorities in the area of world organization. They had been such zealous and persistent promoters of a permanent court of justice before 1914 that participants in the American peace movement had widely recognized that it was primarily an American proposal, and they did not easily accept the court's proposed dependence on the League after the war. The subordination of the ideal of a juristic world order to a politically oriented

Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law

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