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...... This paper will discuss the implications of the laws under which American citizens would be subjected to in an international criminal court. This paper will examine whether or not, too, subjecting Americans to the court of laws as represented by the notion of an international criminal court would be an infringement of the rights guaranteed Americans under the United States Constitution. Also, if the government, by agreeing to a U.S. participation in such a court, would stand in violation of the Constitution under which it operates as a government
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was created to address those issues at a level of international interaction amongst the nations of the world that translate into crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, and aggression (McNerney, Patricia, 2001, p. 181). The establishment of the ICC was not a new concept when it was established in 1996 (Aksar, Yusuf and Cass, F., 2004, xix). Prior to its establishment, the Nuremberg Military Tribunal had been convened and held to try World War II military and governmental leaders in crimes against humanity committed in the pre and World War II Germany, and other European nations that Germany invaded with, in part,

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