Word: constitutionalize
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When a congressmen face criminal charges, they often argue in court-usually unsuccessfully-that their conduct in Congress should be adjudicated by the ethics committee (which can?t throw anyone in jail) rather than the criminal court system. The underpinning of this is a provision of the Constitution, intended to...
The new Iraqi constitution recognizes the Kurds' de facto autonomy in northern Iraq, allowing them to keep the revenues from any new oil fields and to maintain their own armed forces. But the status of the oil rich northern city of Kirkuk remains a flashoint, because it is claimed not...
CD: Replace the Constitution with a ULA? “I agree, I have read the terms and conditions, ok, ok.” Yeah, that’d be pretty great.
EPCOT as envisioned by Walt was certainly nightmarishly controlling, although endlessly fascinating. He wanted to build a planned city, a new town, with a dome over it, a nuclear power plant and electric cars, and a social contract that supercedes the Constitution. People would waive their Constitutional rights in favor...
Ironically, the first winner isn't an oil giant from the "coalition of the willing" but DNO ASA, a small company traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange. DNO negotiated the rights in early 2004 to drill in about 1,500 sq. mi., inking the contract in the final week of...