ABSTRACT
One would never suspect that Theodore Roosevelt, an avid imperialist and trigger-happy former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, would be a proponent of World Peace Through Law, but he was. Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The version of "world peace through law" is not the product of mere academic speculation, but rather the considered opinion of a very "practical" man who knew first-hand what war could do and knew that something very decisive and efficacious needed to be done about it. Another prominent proponent of "world peace through law" is William Howard Taft. Most Americans would undoubtedly be surprised to learn that a Republican president was active in the peace movement. Under Taft's proposal, reliance is placed upon conciliation and arbitration as a prelude to judge-made law, without ever needing to create a world legislative body.
