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Argument analysis: Court leaning toward requiring the government to prove that a felon in possession knew he was a felon

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Argument analysis: A search for a rule, but is there even a remedy?

At today’s oral argument in Hernández v. Mesa, the latest chapter in a Mexican family’s effort to hold a U.S. Border Patrol agent liable for the fatal shooting, on Mexican soil, of their 15-year-old ...
Simon Fraser University

Exercise on Argument Analysis

For the following examples, reconstruct the original argument by identifying the premise(s) (including any supressed premises required by the principle of charity) and conclusion. Looking at the ...