What is international law?

a. Christian nations have the right to discover new land in the Americas and extinguish aboriginal title by purchase, conquest, or abandonment.
b. Any nation that discovers an act of genocide is obligated to intervene in order to stop the genocide from continuing. That’s why states always look the other way.
c. The set of national obligations codified in a body of treaties that national governments enter into voluntarily in the name of their citizens and states.
d. A set of domestic constitutional laws codified for the interest of citizens of a given nation and adhered to by all in a fair manner.


Ans: c

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