Even as recent international attention has been focused on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, we need to seize this opportunity to control threats from biological and chemical weapons and to make major breakthroughs in the follow
full story >>Thirty-five years ago, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. Today, almost all nations are party to the treaty. The NPT represents a key legal barrier to nuclear weapons proliferation and makes a critica
Continue reading >>"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." — The United States Constitution, Amendment X, 1789
Continue reading >>"The Court bows to the lessons of experience and the force of better reasoning, recognizing that the process of trial and error, so fruitful in the physical sciences, is appropriate also in the judicial function." — Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice o
Continue reading >>"... the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution." — Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Speech at Elmira, New York, 190
Continue reading >>"Government implies the power of making laws." — Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, 1787-1788 Article I of the Constitution grants all legislative powers of the federal government to a Congress divided into two chambers, a Senate and a House o
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