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Excerpt from A Digest of the International Law of the United States, Vol. 3 of 3: Taken From Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and From Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-General
As has already been stated, navigable water-courses which traverse the dominions of two or more sovereigns, and on the freedom of which the commerce of the world in part depends, cannot, without a wrong to the commercial World as a whole, be permanently obstructed by any one of the sovereigns by whom their banks are controlled. This was the position taken by the United States in its controversy with Den mark as to the sound, and such is now the view of the leading European powers as to all great thoroughfares of trade not inclosed entire within the realm of one particular sovereign.
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