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Who even gives out letters of marque these days?
by mikrl 3y ago
Who even gives out letters of marque these days?
- Asparagirl 3y agoA US Congressman (from Texas, naturally) introduced a bill to grant letters of marque to be used against Russian oligarchs’ property early last year, just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alas, it did not pass. But letters of marque are still explicitly enumerated as a power granted in the US Constitution, and notably the United States was not one of the signatories to the 1856 treaty that mostly banned them. And that treaty was the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law, which came about at the end of a war for…Crimea. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6869 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6869