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...grand jury is well known to Anglo-American criminal justice as the people's guardian of fairness. The grand jury derives its authority directly from the people, and when that group, independent in its sphere, acts according to its mandate, the court cannot justifiably withhold its assistance, nor can anyone, regardless of his station, withhold from it evidence not privileged...
Seated among the few morning spectators in the London law court was a tall, familiar American figure. As the head of a select group of U.S. jurists observing British justice at work during a two-week Anglo-American exchange program, Chief Justice Warren Burger was on a busman's holiday. On a London street a senior British official was pleased to find Burger sufficiently briefed to congratulate him on a very recent appointment. The official, in turn, offered his congratulations to Burger as just about the only man in Washington who had not lost his job in the past...
This approach to his subject forces Berger to specify the conditions under which impeachment is a proper tool of redress. He derives these specifications from the Constitution and from Anglo-American legal history...
...Among other things, the two leaders agreed that neither the U.S. nor Britain had any postwar territorial ambitions, and that the right of peoples to choose their own form of government would be respected. The charter also summarized Anglo-American commitments to expanded trade, to a general improvement in living standards, to "freedom from fear and want," to freedom of the seas, and to the eventual "abandonment of the use of force...
Applications for the Mark DeWolfe Howe fund are due Thursday, April 26 at Prof. Martin Peretz's office in Putnam House, 69 Brattle Street. Grants are awarded for research in civil rights, civil liberties and Anglo-American legal history. The grants are open to undergraduates...