[4CJ]

Walt: Where did Justice Grier write there were two separate nations involved?

Justice Robert Grier: 'parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations.'

You calling Grier a liar?

[WhiskeyPapa]

You calling Grier a liar?

"The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary, to constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. A war may exist where one of the belligerents claims sovereign rights as against the other."

--Justice Grier, Majority Opinion in the Prize Cases

You're the liar. Grier did not say that the USA and the so-called CSA were both independent nations.

Walt