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...federal democracies that boast supreme courts and written constitutions. Until this month, however, India differed from the U.S. in one vital respect: its constitution was thought to give its legislatures the same freewheeling power as that of Britain's House of Commons-a power to jail critics for contempt with no judicial review whatever...
...Singh locked up in the Lucknow jail for seven days. He countered by getting two judges of Uttar Pradesh's highest court to spring him on bail pending his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The legislature countered by rearresting Singh-and holding the two judges in contempt. When the full state court issued a stay on the contempt warrants for their colleagues, the legislature issued warrants for their arrest. By that time, things were getting so hot that India's President could only buck the case to India's Supreme Court. The basic issue...
Contrary to their traditional contempt for European politics, many Americans may look somewhat wistfully at Thursday's election in England; British voters were given not a quavering echo of an overly idyllic past but a responsible alternative to the incumbent government. Since an extension of the thirteen year Tory rule might well have destroyed the Labor party, Labor's apparent victory over the Conservatives is welcome, if only because it preserves a strong two party government in England...
...incestuous relations with his sister -and spent the next 40 years recovering the 15,000 circulation that it lost as a result. But it could be stuffy too. In an 1882 article on "The Prominence of Athleticism in England," it claimed that Americans could not help condemning with contempt "that miscalled energy that expends itself in frivolity and destruction of time...
Greenwood: MFDP delegates Dewey Green and Mary Lane, given summonses to appear in court on Oct. 26. Some speculation that all 68 MFDP delegates may be charged with contempt of court for having disobeyed an earlier court order which enjoined the MFDP from functioning...