A new problem has risen in the thick of the on-going war. President Bush approved a plan that allows the government to try suspected terrorists in private, without the normal laws of a fair trial. Many people living in all corners of the world are now questioning if this lives up to America's reputable justice system. It does not in many ways, and it will be looked at as an injustice if it isn't done according to American legal procedures. In the past these judicial laws have been bent in order to quickly abolish any threat to American people, but it has also gone the other way in different cases. The question our president is asking is simple: Is it worth the safety of our country to try these people as American civilians with all the inclusive rights that we have as law abiding citizens? In times of war, dealing with people trying to destroy America, the rules should be bent, but justice should always prevail no matter what the situation is.
In 1863 a lawyer named Lambdin P. Milligan joined a group called the Sons of Liberty who talked of freeing Confederate prisoners in Indiana and Illinois. The group was arrested, tried in a military court, and sentenced to death for conspiracy and treason. Milligan filed a writ of habeas corpus with the high court. He argued that the use of military courts for civilians was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court blocked the execution saying that "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances" (Savage, A5). The 1867 opinion of the court was very much against Abraham Lincoln's decision. At that time the Supreme Court justices said the case got turned over because the accused were American citizens. .
In 1942 a similar case was formed against eight Nazis who had been dropped off on America's coast and were planning to destroy weapon facilities in America.
Six men died because of the last tribunal. ... Tribunal judges, on the other hand, have no such luxury. ... The tribunals are not necessary. ... The tribunals are just one example. The tribunals are totally unnecessary because a normal court has proven to be effective for the last 200 years, and are today just as effective in determining one's guilt. ...
It is debated that there were more political consequences because of the media attention that forced governments to act, for instance, the British Government setting up a Tribunal for Inquiry, to shift the blame. ... A more long term political consequence was the start of a new tribunal to find the truth behind the controversial Bloody Sunday. ... Blair reasoned that the new tribunal under Lord Saville, would dispose of this particular item of injustice. ... It is not a totally reliable explanation of the Tribunal as Blair's audience includes the Irish who want the truth discovered, so hi...
Within the judicial branch itself, there are five Superior Courts, three Appellate Courts and other tribunals such as Municipal Courts (Conniff, 2002). ... Finally, there are other tribunals that hear cases, most importantly Municipal Courts. ... The judicial branch has five superior courts, three appellate courts and other tribunals including municipal courts. The power of each court is limited to certain areas of law and territorial jurisdiction like many courts in the world today....
The rights of women concerning these two Acts have, in recent years, appeared to have become more effective; women appear to be being supported and justifyied by tribunals, (although sex discrimination and equal pay rights are still quite obviously being ignored by some companies and employers, even though the Acts have been in force for over twenty years !) ... The woman had informed the company, QS familywear, that she intended to take the case to a tribunal, and was dissmissed for alledgedly losing the 'trust and confidence of other directors'. ... The deputy chairwoman of the Equ...
Soldiers working at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for short. The SS began as an elite group of bodyguards for Hitler. The job of many of the SS was to kill every communist party official and every Jew they could capture. ...
Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...
In today's world of individual employment contracts, performance-related pay schemes, Human Resource and Total Quality Management and all the other ingredients of the so-called "new" workplace, trade unions are often regarded as anachronistic obstacles preventing success of the market economy. ... The main priority of this essay is to represent the arguments for and against the relevance of trade unions in todays working society. ... "If the problem cannot be resolved amicably, the matter may go to an industrial tribunal." The purpose of industrial tribunals is to make sure that e...
Men, women, and children were killed with bayonets, swords, bamboo sticks and also their bodies were even sexually mutilated.1The International Tribunal for the Far East was set up to charge Japanese leaders for such crimes in the Tokyo trial. ... In addition Emperor Hirohito makes a statement after he hears of a terrible defeat in Guadalcanal which is, "Today the Chief of General Headquarters said that whether or not we withdraw from Guadalcanal will be reported to me on the 30th. ... Today the U.S. is sitting with some advancement in their technology due to this incident and the former Japan...
On December 9th, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against twenty-three German physicians for their participation in crimes against humanity ("Online".) ... As far as the validity of having a death sentence (there isn't currently one in the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal,) it was the appropriate sentence for the times. ... The guidelines for medical experiments the trial set are still a strong force today. ...
