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But investment agreements like those backed by the US demand that developing countries waive this presumption and permit the adjudication of suits according to procedures that fall far short of those expected in twenty-first-century democracies.

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Over 90 percent of juveniles waive their Miranda rights and submit to police questioning without lawyers or parents present.

So if you think about all of this together for a second: as a country, we've decided that juveniles cannot be trusted with things like voting, buying cigarettes, attending an R-rated movie or driving, but they can make the judgment call to waive their Miranda rights, rights that we know from research, most teens don't understand or appreciate.

And parents in the room: depending on the state that you live in, your child can potentially waive these rights without your knowledge and without consulting any adult first.

He told me that he'd waive the $1 rental fee (he said it would be wrong to charge more) if I promised to watch the whole movie.

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