Vasquez
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Fernando Vasquez
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Spanish theologian described as an early theorist of a society of free states under natural law.
As early as 1564, a Spanish theologian, Vasquez, conceived of a group of free states with reciprocal rights regulated by jus naturale et gentium, without regard to a world-power, either imperial or ecclesiastical.
Nor is the truth of this argument at all weakened by what Vasquez has advanced, who maintains that the Sovereign who attempts the life of an individual loses, in reality, the character of Sovereign:
They are of no force therefore, in the opinion of Vasquez, between two independent nations or sovereigns, or between a free nation and a sovereign:
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Spanish jurist, called 'that glory of Spain,' whose thorough treatment of prescription and the law of nations is extensively quoted and endorsed.
The same Vasquez has also most justly said that not even the lapse of infinite time establishes a right which seems to have arisen from necessity rather than choice.
We have shown that according to Vasquez, neither prescription nor custom had any force as between free nations or the rulers of different peoples, or any force against those principles which were introduced by primitive law.
Vasquez next shows that from the time of the earliest occupation of the earth every people possessed the right of hunting in its own territory, and of fishing in its own rivers.