Guaranty Trust Co. v. United States

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• holding that the political department’s “action in recognizing a foreign government and in receiving its diplomatic representatives is conclusive on all domestic courts”
• holding that if a claim acquired by the federal government was barred pri- or to being assigned to the government, it could not be revived solely because of the government’s acquisition thereof
• noting that the rule allowing claims against a foreign sovereign that has asserted its own claims is assumed to be founded on principles of justice
• noting that the rule allowing claims against a foreign sovereign that has asserted its own claims is assumed to be founded on principles of justice
• noting that the rule allowing claims against a foreign sovereign that has asserted its own claims is assumed to be founded on principles of justice
• explaining that recognition “is a political rather than a judicial question, and is to be determined by the political department of the government”

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