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A Digest of International Law
Volume IV of the eight-volume 1906 government compilation. The checked entry concerns an 1802 attack on the Spanish minister’s flag and cites correspondence from James Madison.
Requested text available. Collection target: 1906 original edition, volume IV of eight volumes
A Digest of International Law
John Bassett Moore · Volume 4 · 1906
4 John Bassett Moore, A Digest of International Law (1906)
University of California Libraries, Riverside copy; digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with Microsoft funding. No missing printed pages detected in volume IV. This is volume IV only. The checked compilation entry does not substitute for Madison’s full letter.
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Use in constitutional interpretation
Robert H. Bork · Opinion of the court
Finzer v. Barry, 798 F.2d 1450, 1456 (D.C. Cir. 1986).
Finzer cites Moore’s report that the 1802 tearing down of the Spanish minister’s flag in Philadelphia, accompanied by insults, was held cognizable in Pennsylvania state courts. Moore cites Madison’s May 11, 1802 letter to Governor McKean, 14 MS. Dom. Let. 18. Finzer was affirmed in part and reversed in part by Boos v. Barry, 485 U.S. 312, 318, 329–34 (1988). The display prohibition was invalidated; the narrowed congregation clause survived.
Later Supreme Court review: Boos v. Barry ↗
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Volume IV only; this record does not establish completeness of the eight-volume set.
The cited item is a short compilation entry, not the full Madison letter. The original manuscript remains unchecked.
Finzer was affirmed in part and reversed in part by Boos v. Barry, 485 U.S. 312 (1988). Its display prohibition did not survive Supreme Court review.
