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  • If Universal Jurisdiction is a concept that should be retained, what limits should be applied?

    “What is Lawfare?” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2010

  • Note: Section 948d from which you quote is titled Jurisdiction of military commissions subsection c, which you quote, details how persons who are subject to military commisions may be designated for a military commission.

    On Moral Cowardice « Whatever 2006

  • Note: Section 948d from which you quote is titled Jurisdiction of military commissions subsection c, which you quote, details how persons who are subject to military commisions may be designated for a military commission.

    On Moral Cowardice « Whatever 2006

  • Note: Section 948d from which you quote is titled Jurisdiction of military commissions subsection c, which you quote, details how persons who are subject to military commisions may be designated for a military commission.

    On Moral Cowardice « Whatever 2006

  • Note: Section 948d from which you quote is titled Jurisdiction of military commissions subsection c, which you quote, details how persons who are subject to military commisions may be designated for a military commission.

    On Moral Cowardice « Whatever 2006

  • The last point hee would prove, is this, "That our Saviour Christ has committed Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction immediately to none but the Pope."

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Military Jurisdiction, which is why those responsible for the crimes enjoy impunity.

    The NarcoSphere - 2009

  • "Jurisdiction," "empire," "appropriating," "colony" — her behavior, as she effortlessly takes control of the narrator's small son, inspires a raft of legal and political terms.

    A Close Read 2005

  • "Jurisdiction," "empire," "appropriating," "colony" — her behavior, as she effortlessly takes control of the narrator's small son, inspires a raft of legal and political terms.

    A Close Read 2005

  • The Massachusetts Court met forthwith, passed an Act to control the commission of the King's Collector, Edward Randolph, and another Act charging their own newly-appointed Collector to look strictly after the enforcement of the Acts of Trade (but in reality to counteract them); repealed another Act which imposed a penalty for plotting the overthrow of the Colonial Constitution -- an Act levelled against Randolph; passed another Act substituting the word "Jurisdiction" for the word

    The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842

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