Spaniards
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Spanish crown, jurists, and colonizers, treated both as adversary in the dispute and as source of corroborating authorities.
Again, Victoria holds that the Spaniards could have shown just reasons for making war upon the Aztecs and the Indians in America, more plausible reasons certainly than were alleged, if they really were prevented from traveling or sojourning among those peoples, and were denied the right to share in those things which by the Law of Nations or by Custom are common to all, and finally if they were debarred from trade.
For those who force war upon barbarous peoples, as the Spaniards did upon the aborigines of America, commonly allege one of two pretexts:
Indeed I have often heard that it has been decreed by the Council of Spain, and by the Churchmen, especially the Dominicans, that the Americans (Aztecs and Indians) should be converted to the Faith by the preaching of the Word alone, and not by war, and even that their liberty of which they had been robbed in the name of religion should be restored.
Ancient Law
Nation whose claim to sovereignty over discovered American territory is discussed.
Bentham was so struck with the confusion attending the application of the legal principle, that he went out of his way to eulogise the famous Bull of Pope Alexander the Sixth, dividing the undiscovered countries of the world between the Spaniards and the Portuguese by a line drawn one hundred leagues West of the Azores;
On Benefits
A people named alongside the Gauls as hypothetical recipients of a collective grant (immunity) from a prince.
2 says he, "if a prince shall give the citizenship to all the Gauls, immunity to the Spaniards, will individuals owe nothing on this account?