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Say that you do become president of Zimbabwe. What is the way forward? How would you deal with what's happened, and how would you begin to tackle the huge economic and political problems that you would be inheriting? We have a program. It's really based on five key...
If no immediate contingency plan is apparent, it is because the Lisbon Treaty was already the E.U.'s Plan B. It replaced the ill-fated E.U. Constitution, which was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005. The Treaty repackages the most important elements of the constitution, including a long...
But civil libertarians, human rights activists and lawyers who have been challenging the Bush Administration's stance on Guantánamo for years hailed the Supreme Court decision as a major step forward. "The court has brought the Constitution home from exile," said Professor Eric M. Freedman, Maurice Deane Distinguished...
"The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in the case known as Boumediene v. Bush. "To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on or off at will would lead to a...
One of the stranger ironies the Constitution has bestowed on American politics is this: some 50 million people just finished choosing the parties' two nominees in a grueling, yearlong primary campaign that cost millions of dollars and captivated the world. But when it comes to picking vice-presidential nominees, only...