Instruction1, What are the sources of international law? 2. Why did the court review the history of the conduct of the nations during war time? The Paquette Habana). 3. What is concurrent jurisdiction? 4. To further investigate the hierarchy and connection between the U.S. Constitution and international law, locate and read Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957). In Reid, two civilian wives were accused of killing their husbands, members of the U.S. army. Defendant Covert killed her husband on a military base in the U.K. and defendant Smith killed her husband on a base in Japan. Pursuant to Status of Forces (SOF) Agreements between the U.S. and those countries, the wives were prosecuted by military tribunals. The defendants claimed that they could not be tried by the military courts. The court agreed, noting that when the U.S. acts against its citizens abroad, those citizens continue to be protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 5. What was the SOF agreement and what was its import in the instant case? 6. What specific constitutional rights were the wives allegedly deprived of? 7. To which portion of the Constitution did the court point in laying out the hierarchy of the SOF and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?