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71Ewing v. California — SCOTUSCase Litigants=Ewing v. California ArgueDate=November 5 ArgueYear=2002 DecideDate=March 5 DecideYear=2003 FullName=Gary Ewing v. State of California USVol=538 USPage=11 Prior=Defendant convicted in Los Angeles County Superior Court;… …
72criminal law — the laws of a state or country dealing with criminal offenses and their punishments. [1580 90] * * * Body of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging, and trial of suspected offenders, and fixes punishment for… …
73PENAL LAW — Principles of Legality Under talmudic law, no act is a criminal offense and punishable as such unless laid down in express terms in the Bible (the Written Law). For this purpose, it is not sufficient that there should be a provision imposing a… …
74Militia — For other uses, see Militia (disambiguation). The Lexington Minuteman, a statue commemorating Captain John Parker, a commander of American militia forces during the American Revolutionary War. The term militia ( …
75Carlos Santiago Nino — (1943 1993) was an Argentine moral, legal and political philosopher.BiographyNino studied law at the University of Buenos Aires and at Oxford, where he received his Ph.D. in 1977 with a thesis directed by John Finnis and Tony Honoré.Nino began… …
76Barry Goldwater — Goldwater redirects here. For other uses, see Goldwater (disambiguation). This article is about the late United States Senator and Presidential nominee. For his son, see Barry Goldwater, Jr. Barry Goldwater United States Senator from Arizona …
77Capital punishment — Death penalty and Death sentence redirect here. For other uses, see Death penalty (disambiguation) and Death sentence (disambiguation). Execution and Execute redirect here. For other uses, see Execution (disambiguation) and Execute… …
78Confirmation bias — (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and recall …
79Nuclear bunker buster — Subsidence craters left over after underground nuclear (test) explosions Bunker busting nuclear weapons, also known as earth penetrating weapons (EPW), are a type of nuclear weapon designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a… …
80Collective security — can be understood as a security arrangement, regional or global, in which each state in the system accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and agrees to join in a collective response to threats to, and breaches of, the peace.… …
