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 ...
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 ...
The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship that is still afloat in the entire world. In fact, not only is she still afloat, but she is still relatively seaworthy. Because she is a symbol of one of the wars for freedom in the United States and a relic from the very beginning of the ...
The U.S. Constitution was designed to unify thirteen diverse new states under one federal government in a way that would be acceptable to as many as possible. At the time, the new nation was still reeling from the Revolutionary War and trying to reorganize. There was much conflict between the states over economic and political ...
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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