Henry Billings Brown

“ It is true that individual citizens whose rights are seriously affected by a system of nonintercourse might, perhaps, maintain a bill of this kind; but to make the remedy effective it would be necessary to institute a multiplicity of suits, to carry on a litigation practically against a state in the courts of that state, and to assume the entire pecuniary burden of such litigation, when all the inhabitants of the complaining state are more or less interested in the result. ”

“ In view of the solicitude which from time immemorial states have manifested for the interest of their own citizens; of the fact that wars are frequently waged by states in vindication of individual rights, of which the last war with England, the opium war of 1840 between Great Britain and China, and the war which is now being carried on in South Africa between Great Britain and the Transvaal Republic, are all notable examples ”