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Painesville City Council recently wrapped up an approximately year-long strategic planning process, adopting a plan for 2024-27 that sets goals for the city’s economy, infrastructure, operations and quality of life. Council unanimously approved the new plan at its April 1 meeting. A copy can be viewed in that meeting’s “Proposed Legislation” document, which is available […]

A critical assessment of how the Department of Defense Law of War Manual narrowly defines "protected persons" under the Geneva Conventions.

Two key issues in Department of Defense Law of War Manual on harm to non-combatants.

Identifying how the DoD's Law of War Manual could be improved in its methodological approach to sources of international law.

Surrounding over who is a strict -- versus those who are thinking it is a living document. it is more susceptible to being more interpretations, it is not so untimely and anachronistic. does that all go away? that is my point. when you dont have the a language in the constitution itself, and it becomes a matter of what was intended here? that somebody who has taken an oath, or somebody who is the former president, or a president of the united states, they can really do whatever they want to be t...

Happy New Year, Freedomites! Freedom’s Town Charter (the town constitution) is effective as of Jan. 1 even though it was passed back in June 2023. You can read the Charter

Interpreted only on whats in the text. theres nothing in the constitution about abortion. so, there is no constitutional right to abortion. say conservatives. here, theres nothing in the constitution that says the president enjoys immunity. in fact, everything suggests that after four years -- going back to george washington, you are returning to civilian life where you have the same rights as everyone else, including the right and the opportunity, to be calling it that, to be charged with a cri...

The extreme right and extreme left both bend the Constitution according to their beliefs, but there's no disputing that the 'living constitution' idea is correct.

Is the Treaty a contemporary guide or an archaic historical document?

As India strengthens its position globally and, given the changes which have taken place domestically, we must look at and embrace new constitutional ideas. But these can be incorporated into the existing manuscript. Why the insistence to re-write it?