Two Sovereignties Rule in the United States
Two Sovereignties Rule
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 687 TWO SOVEREIGNTIES RULEThis rule, which the Supreme Court repudiated in Murphy v. Waterfront Commission (1964) , was a limitation on the right against self-incrimination. Based on the federal principle that one sovereignty has no interest in the law enforcement activities of another, the rule was
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