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World Council of Churches Renounces Doctrine of Discovery

March 5, 2012

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Anybody who has ever done any research into Aboriginal rights will have encountered the doctrine of discovery.  In 1532, Francisco de Vitoria, accepted as one of the fathers of international law, discussed the idea in its then-strictly-legal sense as it was codified in Justinian’s Institutes—i.e. Roman law, church law and the foundation of much European […]