the framers of the constitution, when they vested in Congress the power to declare war, never imagined that they were leaving it to the executive to use the military and naval forces of the United States all over the world for the purpose of actually coercing other nations, occupying their territory, and killing their soldiers and citizens, all according to his own notions of the fitness of things, as long as he refrained from calling his action war or persisted in calling it peace." Legacy and awards Moore was honored on a U.S. definitive postage stamp issued December 3, 1966, the five-dollar value of the Prominent Americans series. In 1922, a new school was dedicated to Moore in his hometown of Smyrna, Delaware. The John Bassett Moore Intermediate School now serves as a public school for the fifth and sixth grades. In 1927, Moore was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Medal. Moore died at his home in New York City on November 12, 1947, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. Works Reports on Extraterritorial Crime (1887) Extradition and Interstate Rendition (two volumes, 1891) American Notes on the Conflict of Laws (1896) History and Digest of International Arbitrations (6 vols., 1898) American Diplomacy (1905) Digest of International Law (8 vols., 1906) Works of James Buchanan (12 vols., 1909–1911, reissued 1960) Four Phases of American Development (1912) International Law and Some Current Illusions (1924) The Permanent Court of International Justice (1924) International Adjudications, Ancient and Modern (8 vols., 1937) Collected Papers (7 vols., 1945) References Sister projects Further reading External links 1860 births 1947 deaths People from Smyrna, Delaware American legal scholars American legal writers Columbia University faculty United States Assistant Secretaries of State American diplomats Naval War College faculty International law scholars American jurists University of Virginia alumni Permanent Court of International Justice judges Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Members of the Institut de Droit International Delaware Republicans New York (state) Republicans American judges of international courts and tribunals Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)