Hamdan and the Sunset of Sovereignty

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Author(s) Andrew C. McCarthy
Source National Review
Date September 25, 2006
URL http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjE1OTlmY2EzNTM5ODNjZjEyZmIwYWE3NDVkNTY4NjQ=
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Quotes-start.png "The Framers conceived American courts as a core component of our system, the bulwark ensuring that Americans were protected from oppressive action by their own government. Yet, now they are morphing before our eyes into a supra-tribunal: a forum standing above our system, enabling all the world — including those energetically seeking to kill Americans — to press its case against the United States." Quotes-end.png


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This item addresses the topic Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.