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TIME: You were arrested, jailed and then put under house arrest for your support of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry three months ago. Do you regret your decision to pursue this cause? AHSAN: Why should I regret it? I play a clean game of cards. It is a shame...
How would you feel if Bob Woodward called your book “a remarkable achievement?”“Fabulous,” says Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82, whose latest book, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court...
If, as the IRI survey suggests, Pakistanis vote overwhelmingly for opposition parties, Musharraf faces possible impeachment by the new parliament for his November declaration of emergency rule, in which he suspended the constitution, dismissed the Supreme Court and locked up thousands of political workers and civilian protesters.
Ahsan sounds more conciliatory. He talks of a "grand new compact" among the army, the political parties and the judiciary to defeat extremist forces and restore democracy. There may even be a role for Musharraf, Ahsan adds, but he must first restore the constitution, reinstate the sacked judges and submit...
James Madison, the architect of the constitution, always maintained that America was not a democracy but a republic. A democracy was government by the people (something many of the founders considered akin to mob rule), while a republic, Madison wrote in "Federalist No. 10," is "a government in which the...