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As such, it is simply not the case that “the ACLU has decided to campaign on the issue of jus ad bellum, whether the US should be resorting to force and to what extent.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Response from ACLU’s Jonathan Manes on Drones and US Forces 2010
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On the contrary, it was a clear statement that the ACLU had decided to campaign on the issue of jus ad bellum, whether the US should be resorting to force and to what extent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference 2010
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I jus gotted bak frum the Airprot after takin JCH4K to catch her Bunway Airlines flite elebenty sebben bak to teh US.
do not ask why box barks - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Your co-blogger forgets that jus solis was stupidly inserted as a broad stroke in the 14th Amendment clause meant to give slaves born on US soil to non-citizens, citizenship.
"Let me be clear. I will let no one question my love of this country." Ann Althouse 2008
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The issue of right to be a natural American by blood jus sanguinis- born of one or more US citizens anywhere - was settled long ago and only momentarily quibbled about by "legal scholars" with plenty of free time when George Romney and Barry Goldwater ran.
Who will determine whether John McCain is a "natural-born citizen," qualified for the presidency? Ann Althouse 2008
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While it may feel somehow satisfying to the "Ah jus gotta go kill sumpfin" crowd to threaten to blow up some random middle eastern city in retaliation for a terrorist attack on the US, it isn't going to happen.
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But it would be hard to come up with a more direct statement that the issue for the ACLU is not the usual at least surface concern of human rights groups with jus in bello and the conduct of armed operations, but instead a belief that the US needs to be restrained — through direct and personal exposure to death on the part of its soldiers — in order that it have the proper incentives not to over-resort to the use offorce.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference 2010
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The Japanese [[jus sanguinis]] policy contrasts with other countries, such as certain countries in [[Western Europe]], or in [[Canada]], the [[US]], or [[Australia]], where people born natively
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The Japanese [[jus sanguinis]] policy contrasts with other countries, such as certain countries in [[Western Europe]], or in [[Canada]], the [[US]], or [[Australia]], where people born natively [[jus solis]] acquire citizenship on birth.
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