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offense against the law

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41) According to Stephens's reasoning, Congress would be justified in assuming that unnecessarily burdening the free exercise of religion is an offense against the law of nations and that the federal government is empowered to stop it.
The Court said that it had "no occasion now to define with meticulous care the ultimate boundaries of the jurisdiction of military tribunals" and that "[w]e hold only that those particular acts constitute an offense against the law of war which the Constitution authorizes to be tried by military commission.
 
 
 
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