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(Why) didn't the "fountain of justice" flow through Governors-General?
Nowadays both the Australian and Canadian governments agree that their (respective) Governor-General (henceforth GG) belongs to two branches of government: both executive and legislative.
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Why did Associate justice Black speak of a Pyrrhic victory?
At the end of the case Beauharnais vs Illinois, the Associate Justice Black said:
In his dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Black quoted Pyrrhus of Epirus by alluding to the term Pyrrhic victory: &...
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When was the last time someone was condemned to slavery as a punishment in the United States?
These question and answer have established than even after the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, felons have been sentenced to be "sold as slave" for a ...
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Has chattel slavery ever been used as a criminal punishment in the USA since the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment?
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution provides (my emphasis):
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly ...
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Earlier U.S. law enforcement raids on lawyers' communications
The office of the personal lawyer of the U.S. President has been raided by the FBI.
Clients' communications with their attorneys are protected by the doctrine of attorney-client privilege, or legal ...
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Has there ever been a society with impartial distribution of privilege and punishment where all members of the society have equal status.
It seems from my non-expert knowledge of history that most societies are characterized by a privileged elite class exploiting an oppressed class to some degree.
Are there examples of societies where ...
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Thought Crimes in History? [closed]
Has there ever been anywhere at any point in history a law criminalizing certain thoughts? I mean a law that says that the thinking of certain thoughts is illegal. I don't mean a law that says that ...
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How did a criminal trial in the Soviet Union work after World War 2?
There are many historical accounts of "trials" in the Soviet Union. However, they tend to center around trials which are political trials. For example, a government agent accused of treason.
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