Word: disobeying
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...interest within this majority, or with misrule by the majority.” Though Chertoff is now accused of being an architect of President Bush’s drive to increase executive authority, at Harvard he wrote that a philosophy of adherence to the sovereign abrogated the right to disobey “bad laws.” “Benthamism cannot even provide us with a basis for disobedience of the type that would make disutilitarian bad law void,” Chertoff wrote. “Even if a sovereign enacts a law that goes against...
...participant in war crimes. Even if he and Anderson can never attend family members' weddings or funerals back home, they are certain they are doing the right thing. Hinzman says, "They tell you in boot camp that if you are given an illegal order, it is your duty to disobey it." No matter what anyone else might call them, in their own minds, Hinzman, Anderson and their peers are still good soldiers, just following orders. --Reported by Steven Frank and Paul Gains/ Toronto and Sandra Marquez/ San Diego
...self-improvement tapes are played during meals, and the teens spend hours charting their behavior. Instead of receiving classroom instruction, they work their way through a self-guided academic curriculum. Residents who follow the rules move through the program's progress levels and are granted more leniency; those who disobey receive demerits and lose privileges. About 20% of the students are on behavior-related medications, prescribed by a visiting psychiatrist. Licensed therapists are available, at a fee beyond the hefty $3,085 a month it costs to keep a kid at Spring Creek. The average length of stay...
...language. Another panelist, Newsweek's Jon Meacham, added the observation that "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued pastoral guidelines about how believers should dramatize the Passion ... almost every one of which Gibson violates." A renegade Catholic, if Gibson is one, would be happy to diss and disobey the bishops. But what other movie has been charged by journalists with such an arcane crime...
...approaching religion, "anything but orthodoxy" continues to be the goal of many. It is our nature to drag down the exalted, demanding Christ of the four biblical Gospels to a level at which we can control and disobey him. Why would we want a Saviour? ROBERT B. PUTMAN Schaumburg...