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...reality, the USPS is a social service. Indeed, postal service is one of the fundamental functions of our government. The Constitution specifically grants Congress the power to “establish Post Offices and Post Roads” in between the powers to coin money and establish federal courts??all key components of our national unity. We are proud to have a government and a Constitution that take on this responsibility rather than leave communication throughout our nation up to a private entity...
...Mixed-commission courts were not post-conflict institutions intended to mete out justice for war crimes. They were, instead, functional components of Britain’s global efforts to suppress the slave trade in peacetime. Countries ratified the courts?? founding treaties because of incentives like money, threat of attack, and involvement. Each nation had a judge and a commissioner of arbitration involved, holding equal power on the court benches. The model was largely successful; the mixed commissions liberated about 80,000 slaves in their 50 years of existence...
...should be brought to trial. International law dictates that the United States can hold captured combatants without trial until the end of an armed conflict. But, since the global war on terror is itself indefinite in scope and duration, the best option is to prosecute suspects in either U.S. courts??where they can still be convicted of conspiracy and judges may still decide they are too dangerous to release—or regular military courts if they are actual combatants, regardless of their nationality...
...accident that, in the wake of the Connecticut state supreme court’s decision this Wednesday to permit same-sex marriage, the conversation assumed this same character, highlighting the essential importance of equality in American government and the courts?? responsibility to protect...
...extent, it is personal,” sophomore Chris Clayton said. “There is pride on the line, regardless of the records.”With the end of his collegiate career in sight—and playing in his final match on Harvard’s courts??co-captain Gideon Valkin elevated his game even further, coasting to victories in all of his singles and doubles matches.“Gideon has been hot,” Clayton said. “Period. It’s been phenonemenal—it takes...