Word: constitutionalizing
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Among the questions: Is the district judge advising the Supreme Court on how to handle the Davis case or is the matter now formally in the district court again? Do the three silent Justices, who signed neither opinion - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito - have...
God and Governance To govern the Philippines, she would need all the goodwill she could muster. The country was one breath away from the economic morgue, while Manila's brand of democracy was built on reeds. Aquino survived eight coup attempts by plotters who hoped to head off her liberal...
After the presidency, she basically returned to keeping house and watching over her husband's legacy. But every now and then she would emerge from private life to tell her successors to behave. She helped lead a second People Power uprising to depose the inept government of Joseph Estrada; she...
Germany's post-World War II constitution, written in 1949, set out to ensure that a democratic system would be able to defend itself against forces hostile to democracy. The Grundgesetz guarantees basic rights like freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, but it also gives the state the power...
However, the board's involvement in the case has divided the Jewish community, with some questioning its neutrality. "This is the great con," says Geoffrey Alderman, an expert on Anglo-Jewry at the University of Buckingham. Alderman points out that the board is bound by its constitution to defer to...