Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
1 See Digest, Moore's , I, pp. 120 Google Scholar ff., the source of the citations contained in this editorial.
2 Secretary Fish, thus explains "the will of the nation" in a communication, dated December 16, 1870,Google Scholar to . MrSickles, , our Minister to Spain: "We have always accepted the general acquiescence of the people in a political change as a conclusive evidence of the will of the nation." Google Scholar
3 This has sometimes been called "recognition of the commercial flag." See article in this JOURNAL for October, 1920, p. 515.