Victoria
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Vitoria
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Theologian cited as holding a narrower view of just cause for punishment.
It is proper also to observe that kings and those who are possessed of sovereign power have a right to exact punishment not only for injuries affecting immediately themselves or their own subjects, but for gross violations of the law of nature and of nations, done to other states and subjects.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Reigning Queen of England used as a rhetorical example.
It would be perfectly proper, and in consonance with the legal meaning and common understanding of the term, to say of Victoria, that “she is free of the throne of England,” and of a cobbler, that he “is free of his trade in the city of London.