Word: sovereignity
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They say we will help [only] those we choose, our friends, and this and that. What are they going to do with the excess of their oil profit? Buy buildings? It is their right. They are sovereign countries. My job, my responsibility was to propose what...
...enforcement agents for illegal searches conducted in bad faith or without probable cause. But that right has been cold comfort: most agents do not have enough assets to make such suits worthwhile. Yet individuals have been prevented from collecting damages from the Federal Government under the traditional doctrine of sovereign immunity that puts the Government above the law in these matters, making it impervious to suits, however justified. In some cases the Government has agreed to pay damages of its own volition...
...centuries against arbitrary Kings (who were, of course, immune from impeachment), used the charge to get at unsatisfactory advisers for offenses both criminal and noncriminal; significantly, the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors does not derive from normal English criminal law. Thus, Parliament impeached various magistrates for misleading their Sovereign, a Lord Chancellor for putting the seal of trust to an ignominious treaty, an admiral for neglecting the safeguard of the sea, and others for appointing bad men to office, taking bribes, purchasing jobs, subverting the fundamental laws, delaying justice. When the Americans adopted the impeachment process, they made it plain...
...that the nationalist movement spread into the general populations of blacks living in empires carved by Europeans in the decade and a half imperialist scramble for Africa in the late 1800s. By 1960 almost all of Africa was either independent or close to attaining independence. Currently there are 40 sovereign black nations in Africa. Portugal alone still clings to Angola and Mozambique as tokens of Portuguese grandeur during European expansion...
This time a Havana paper was soon complaining about "the cynical marriage between Washington and the criminal fascist junta of Chile." At a State Department hearing, lawyers for Cuba claimed that the Imias is owned by the Castro government and is therefore protected by the doctrine of sovereign immunity. In most cases involving commercial cargo ships, a claim of immunity is not ruled upon until after a full trial. But Washington apparently decided that in view of the politics involved, discretion was the better part of precedent. The State Department advised Crowe to let the Imias...