“The Doctrine of Discovery is one of the earliest examples of classical international law—that is, the accepted legal norms and principles that control conduct between different states. The Doctrine was developed to regulate European countries’ actions and conflicts over exploration,…
“The English possessions in America were not claimed by right of conquest, but by right of discovery. According to the principles of international law, as then understood by the civilized powers of Europe, the Indian tribes in the new world…
“Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1923, states, under “Family of Nations”: “—f. of nations. Internat. Law, an aggregate of states, which, as a result of their antecedents, have inherited a common civilization, and are at…
The “fighting words” doctrine encompasses direct, scurrilous verbal abuse of an individual or small group likely to incite an immediate breach of the peace. “Fighting words” are “`personally abusive epithets’ and not merely [words that are deemed] a…