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:''This article is about the concept in international law and admiralty law. For the ship, see'' M/S Freedom of the Seas''.''
'Freedom of the seas' was one of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points proposed during the First World War. It stresses freedom to navigate the oceans. It also disapproved of war fought in water. The freedom was to be breached only in a necessary international agreement.
An excerpt from the president's speech to Congress:
:''Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.''
The United States' allies Britain and France were opposed to this point, as both were considerable naval powers at the time. As with Wilson's other points, freedom of the seas was rejected by the German government.

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★ Hugo Grotius

★ John Selden

★ Cornelius Bynkershoek