The world has come a long way in securing human rights and promoting high moral grounding. However, a fundamental problem exists with capital punishment in this country – its inability to be reversed and the flaw-ridden system which invokes it. Capital punishment sentences innocent men/women to their deaths using a defective legal system and shaky […]
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Introduction Sovereign Immunity is a doctrine that precludes a suit against the sovereign (government) without its consent. In English law, this concept is based on the concept of the “the sovereign can do no wrong.” In American law, the doctrine was implemented with a slightly different rationale in mind. Under United States’ common law, the […]
On November 13, 1860, Senator Robert Toombs rose before his fellow Georgians and argued vehemently for secession from the Union, reasoning that, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, “[t]he Executive power, the last bulwark of the Constitution to defend us against these enemies of the Constitution, has been swept away, and we now stand without […]