Pros And Cons Of Asylum

In terms of sovereign immunity courts must decline to hear cases against foreign sovereigns. This type of immunity applies to the head of a foreign state, government of a foreign state as well as specific governmental departments of a foreign state. It is important to draw a distinction between the terms iure imperii and iure gestonis, with the latter being a form of restrictive sovereignty and the former, absolute sovereignty which states that a foreign state and its agents are immune from any types of suits instituted against them. With regards to the courts there has been a divided opinion as to whether or not heads of state have immunity form international crimes that are committed. On the one hand, international courts have said that there is no such immunity available whilst, the position in the International Court of Justice differs allowing for heads of state immunity under customary international law.

Thus, all these factors together, demonstrate that the notion of continued immunity for ex-heads of state is inconsistent with the provisions of the Torture Convention and that Senator Pinochet does not enjoy any immunity . Comment and Reflection In re Pinochetaccepts the general rule of international law to be an upholding of State sovereignty. However, it does carve out certain exceptions with respect to crimes against humanity in order to indicate that State and sovereign leaders don’t have the absolute authority to inflict harms of any type on their citizens in the name of governance .

Since slaves were considered property, the government couldn 't constitutionally justify taking me away from my owner. The government also couldn 't prohibit slavery or stop it from spreading to free states. This argument is from amendment 10 in the constitution that states that the federal government only has powers that are delegated to them by the states or the people through the constitution. In other words, if the constitution doesn 't prohibit something, the court can 't prohibit it. There was no amendment for slavery since the United States was split geographically on their views.

Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.” Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives all people “the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” However, the right “may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes.”

Secession can be defined as the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. Secession is discouraged heavily under international law , but According to the Declaration on Principles of International Law and the Vienna Declaration and Programme, when secession is exercised by people than it is deemed to be justified. “Under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation” and/or is set by the Constitution (or applicable national law) of the parent state concerned. Kosovo and Crimea both represents unilateral secession and Kosovo was cited as a precedent in case of Crimea’s secession, but secession in both the above mentioned cases is entirely different. In the former

Another point that is brought up in the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine is the seventh point “ The Monroe Doctrine has been distorted to serve as an instrument of the hegemony of the United States in the Western Hemisphere”(89). This means that Latin America doesn’t have any rights or benefits from the Monroe Doctrine. The U.S had power and right to establish the

The Supreme court accepted the case. Fields attorneys are arguing that the Stolen Valor act is unconstitutional. Field attorneys argued that Fields cannot be convicted because he lied. The First amendment protects speech that does not directly harm others. Fields attorneys claim that Fields had lied about himself, and by lying about himself he only hurt himself.

When refugees leave behind their countries to seek refuge on foreign lands, it is clear that states should have the primary duties to admit those refugees while protecting their lives and dignities. However, on the international plane, such is not the case; states have a right, rather than a duty to grant asylum to these refugees. As such, states do not have the legal obligation to grant asylum to refugees, but states are bound by the principle of ‘non refoulement’. In essence, ‘non refoulement’ is a concept which prohibits states from returning a refugee or asylum seeker to any country where he/ she is likely to face persecution, torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Foreign Intervention in South American Affairs In the past, the United States of America has inserted itself into foreign affairs, only for negative consequences to occur. In 1823, U.S. president James Monroe introduced the Monroe Doctrine, a statement that aimed to prevent European intervention in New World affairs. (Monroe). However, throughout the centuries afterwards, the Monroe Doctrine has been abused by the United States as an excuse to insert itself into South and Latin American affairs, even though the Doctrine itself does not mention this.

The Right to Asylum Although the CR and the PR set the basics of the refugee protection regime, they do not grant the right to asylum. On the contrary, the right to asylum is the decision of each state according to its sovereignty (Barnet, 2002 and Henkel, 1982). Refugees can seek asylum in the first signatory country they enter, but other countries they pass through later can send them back to that first country (Barnet, 2002). Furthermore, the procedures of granting asylum are not regulated in the CR (Phoung, 2005).

United States, because the question is being whether the federal obscenity statute violates the First Amendment of the constitution, is different from one dealing with state legislation under the Fourteenth Amendment. The federal government should not be allowed to suppress an individual only because the state has also done it. Justice Harlan states that since the government may protect itself from any revolution, the federal government then has the power to deprive speeches that threaten that security. Nevertheless, given that these cases deal with obscenity, they deal directly with the States, and not the federal government mainly because Congress has no power over sexual moralities. Justice Harlan does not support this conviction being

Although the state disregarded the Full Faith and Credit clause, the court upheld the argument because the couple had not established bona fide residence in Nevada. To become a legal, bona fide resident of a State, one must reside there for the state’s required amount of time and have the intentions of residing there permanently or at the least, indefinitely. Williams and Hendrix clearly did not intend to do so. As a result, the two were convicted of bigamous cohabitation.

The police violated Wolf’s rights and since there was no warrant for arrest or warrant to search his office the police was trespassing. The police officer who violated his rights was to be punished by his superiors. The judges decided that using such evidence goes completely against the Fourth Amendment which is a basic need to our freedom. States should follow this law but are not directly forced to. States using evidence that should be excluded in their “statute becomes a form, and its protection an illusion,”(Wolf v Colorado, 1949).

Subsequently they contend that because Florida did not have a statewide vote recount standard and counties were using different standards to decide which votes would count, Florida was not treating all its citizens equally under the law thus violating the Equal Protection Clause. This was problematic in that two voters could have marked their ballot in the same manner but in one county it would be deemed acceptable and in another it would be rejected. It is critical to note that "The Equal Protection Clause prohibits government officials from implementing an electoral system that gives the votes of similarly situated voters different effect based on the happenstance of the county or district in which those voters live. " Bush v. Gore, 531 U. S. 98, 104

This is a negative right, since it prohibits something rather than entitles it. Under this clause, the U.S. government is prohibited from establishing one religion above others. This is usually interpreted to mean that the Founding Fathers were trying to avoid the imposition of a 'state religion. ' Just like the Free Exercise Clause, though, there are times when it seems that religion and government can 't get out of each other 's way. Fortunately, the Constitution includes a process for resolving these questions: the U.S.