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Book Note, Fatma E. Marouf
Book Note, Fatma E. Marouf
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Tortured Confessions presents an innovative perspective on the relationship between torture and propaganda. Abrahamian’s persuasive account exposes the intrinsic limitations of arguments that try to explain torture as simply the result of a “traditional” regime, a desire for social discipline, or a search fro security information; he binds torture instead to ideological warfare and political mobilization, the fundamental goals of military propaganda.
Of Pardons, Politics And Collar Buttons: Reflections On The President's Duty To Be Merciful, Margaret Colgate Love
Of Pardons, Politics And Collar Buttons: Reflections On The President's Duty To Be Merciful, Margaret Colgate Love
Fordham Urban Law Journal
A discussion of the President's ability to grant Federal Pardons, and the moral and political factors which influence the exercise of that power. The article proposes that the President has a duty to pardon, not so much as to do justice in particular cases, but to be merciful as a more general obligation of office.
Of Pardons, Politics And Collar Buttons: Reflections On The President's Duty To Be Merciful, Margaret Colgate Love
Of Pardons, Politics And Collar Buttons: Reflections On The President's Duty To Be Merciful, Margaret Colgate Love
Fordham Urban Law Journal
A discussion of the President's ability to grant Federal Pardons, and the moral and political factors which influence the exercise of that power. The article proposes that the President has a duty to pardon, not so much as to do justice in particular cases, but to be merciful as a more general obligation of office.