Word: draconianism
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Judged by historical standards, Bush gets mixed marks. His detention of aliens is much less draconian than F.D.R.'s, and Bush has preached against racial scapegoating. Congress has endorsed the additional wiretap authority. Military trials for alien terrorists would go beyond World War II precedents, but not by miles. Even if constitutionally permissible, however, nonpublic, nonjury military trials may be grossly unwise, forgoing the opportunity to showcase dramatic evidence of wrongdoing as well as America's fair judicial procedures...
...would have canceled their sections on their own can still be overruled by professors, who can argue that because other sections this week were required to meet, equity demands the same of today’s sections. And in seminars and tutorials, where attendance is often enforced by Draconian penalties for absence—sometimes two or three lead to automatic failure—the problem is still more acute. Unless the physics department unlocks the secret to instantaneous travel, such obligations will force some members of the student body to choose between abandoning their travel plans and suffering academic...
Considering the time commitment and pressures faced by Harvard’s athletes, this strict standard may seem draconian. Then again, it all goes to prove that being a student-athlete at Harvard is not as easy as most would assume...
Committee meetings have recently centered around zoning plans for the area that McCready has called “draconian,” and unacceptable to Harvard’s future development proposals...
...would allow the government to hold an illegal alien suspected to threaten national security for seven days without filing charges. After a week's time, authorities must either officially file charges or let the immigrant go free. (The previous limit on detention was 24 hours). This sounds like a Draconian measure compared to pre-September 11th regulations, but it's far more lenient than the unlimited detention originally advocated by Attorney General John Ashcroft - and as such, it's a compromise civil libertarians and immigration lawyers are willing to live with...