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Organization of the Community of Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Clyde Eagleton
Clyde Eagleton*
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Of the Board of Editors
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Law, by whatever definition, is the authoritative voice of the community. Whether it be edicted by monarch or dictator, by representative assembly or the whole people, it speaks in the name of and binds the members of the community. It cannot rest upon the judgment of any member of the community; the essence of law is that it performs a group function. Law cannot speak upon the authority of an individual member; it must represent the authority of the group.

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Research Article
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1942 , pp. 229 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1942

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1 The Commission to Study the Organization of Peace was organized a few days after war had started in Europe in 1939. It was born in the offices of the League of Nations Association, where it continues to work, but it is not an organization devoted to the restoration of the League. It is convinced that the community of nations must be organizedif law and order are to prevail between nations. It is a study group composed of persons able to participate actively in its work, and having some degree of expert qualification therefor; many of its members are members of the American Society of International Law; five of them are members of the Board of Editors of this Journal. It maintains contact with other countries making studies in this country and abroad, and seeks tobe a clearing house for information in the field of international post-war reconstruction.

2 Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, Preliminary Report, November, 1940,Eight West Fortieth Street, New York City. Reprinted, with accompanying papers presentedto the Commission, in International Conciliation, April, 1941, No. 369.

3 Comment on the Eight Point Declaration of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, August 14,1941. Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, New York, December,1941.

4 Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, Second Report: The Transitional Period,February, 1942. Reprinted, with papers presented to the Commission, in International Conciliation, April, 1942, No. 379.