However, stretching the bounds of logic, the courts have decided that since the state and federal governments are separate sovereigns and therefore successive prosecutions based on the same underlying conduct do not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause if the prosecutions are brought by separate sovereigns.
While the Navy has attempted to be systematic in naming its ships, in recent years it seems there has been a complete breakdown in any attempt to sustain a systematic practice in the name categories for ship types. The first ship named for a living person was USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in 1975.Other ships named for living people include: 1  USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51). 2  USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 709).tarting at the beginning of the 20th Century, the Navy's ships were named in accordance with a system, tailored to ship types.
USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed Lady Lex, was an early aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of the Lexington class; her only sister ship, Saratoga, was commissioned a month earlier.