Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act to prevent exactly this type of action. It doesn’t take a...
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Two alternative conceptions of government – a republic and an oligarchy. By Friedrich Schiller18th-Century Philosopher and Historian...
Defunding America’s wars at home and abroad. Think of it as a war system that’s been coming...
The ruling allows vital public education funding to be siphoned away to private religious schools. By Andrew...
We need to end systemic racism and the militarism that makes it even deadlier—from Kabul to Atlanta...
Rulers used law codes either to justify their rule or to demonstrate examples of justice and due...
Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
What was the role of rhetoric in all of their different courts and procedures? By O.E. Tellegen...
Prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, there was no unitary, national legal system. Before...
Counting adults who are unable to vote is intellectually dishonest, but that’s par for the course for...
The trials for ambitus were numerous in the time of the republic. Introduction In ancient Roman law,...
Looking at crime in Elizabethan England and the brutal punishments offenders received. Thieves and Pickpockets The crowded...
This refers to any one of several ancient Roman laws (leges maiestatis) dealing with crimes against the...
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There is no systematic collection of Greek laws, thus the knowledge the earliest notions of the subject...
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the seeds for the later mass incarceration of black people...
Examining the main flaws in the court system in the days of Homer. By Dr. Alexandr LoginovProfessor...
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The ideal was formulated in the Archaic period and became a feature of Greek identity. Abstract This...
Entering the 21st century, roughly 10 percent of the nation’s pre-college-aged children attended parochial schools. By Derek...
Roman law provisions on desertion had features that were totally different from the common Roman criminal law....
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
Before John Marshall, the Supreme Court had been a constitutional afterthought. No one in the founding generation...
From gruesome, public executions to Georgian Britain’s adoration of the ‘heroic’ highwayman, the author investigates attitudes to...
Criminal justice reform advocates are sounding the alarm about the tech’s deception, and ramifications. We’ve all heard...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...