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.
A little farther on Vasquez says:
After Vasquez had established his point by the help of many authorities both human and divine, he added:
Indeed the opinions of them all appear the more manifestly absurd, because no one of those nations can erect a prescription against itself;