Word: habeus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that's allowed. "I object! Corpus Jurus Secundum! No ex post facto! The counsellor is leading the witness! Habeus Corpus! Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica! I'm hungry! Where's my money...
...second-ranking official in the nationalist government, Botha implied that the presence of communist ideologues warrants and justifies the immediate sacrifice of the rights of democracy, freedom of the press, and habeus corpus of the majority of the people within that nation. But the foreign minister's fear of a communist conspiracy, of which he offered no proof other than the existence of a letter, does not lend credibility to his government's increasingly repressive, even totalitarian policies...