Word: constitutionalization
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Despite its lock on an electoral majority, the ANC standing has slipped irrevocably in recent years as a result of a series of scandals over corruption, incompetence and abuse of power. Millions of black South Africans also remain afflicted by much the same poverty and squalor they endured under apartheid...
Jack Kevorkian, whose public championing of the legalization of medical euthanasia has earned him the moniker “Dr. Death,” attacked medical organizations and the Supreme Court in a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday. After being convicted of second-degree murder for assisting terminally ill...
The world is serious out there. Not only am I in the thick of classes and all else that school entails, but with the downward turn in the financial markets, even that “outside world” seems pretty heavy right now. So when I walk into a...
At the end of the 18th century, many of the framers of the fledgling United States-the first major modern democracy-also put stock in the idea. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were among those who considered term limits an important way to check individual power. In a...
Take those concrete barriers. They are not yet the 12-foot tall monsters that eventually scarred Baghdad's streets like lifeless, bleached reefs (and which were being taken down in one part of the Iraqi capital last week). But big or small, the effect on traffic is the same: huge...