Word: law
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...certain powers and privileges of local governments. The other article is regarded as Magna Carta's most important legacy, for it sets forth the seminal notions that a man has a right to a speedy trial and may not be deprived of his rights without due process of law: "To no one will we [the King] sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with...
Morrow is the chief and only judge of the territorial court of Canada's Northwest Territories. As such, he is the senior representative of Her Majesty's law in 1,300,000 sq. mi. of frozen northland, all of it lying above the 60th latitude. There are only 32,000 people in that expanse, and local justices of the peace handle most of the legal problems. But since those accused of most crimes are entitled to be tried by a judge, Morrow rides the circuit by chartered plane and Skimobile...
...four minor cases. The administration of justice in the Northwest costs about $600,000 a year, not a little of which goes for chartered planes. The Canadian government is willing to spend the money in an effort to treat the Eskimo the same as any other citizen under the law...
...Small Bosses. "We don't have any criminals in the North yet," he says. "These are kids. I think of myself as bringing the presence of the law into these places, and I try to sit down and explain to these people whenever possible. What I'm doing is teaching civics." It is not easy. For a start, none of the Eskimo dialects have a precise translation of the words guilty and innocent. Judge comes out as "one who listens" or, more simply, "boss." In the unusual cases when there is also a six-man jury, the arrangement...
...patient. We have placed him in a plaster cast. We keep him there until the wound heals," said Premier George Papadopoulos, the colonel who is strongman of the current Greek military regime. He was only trying to explain why civil and political liberties in Greece remain suspended under martial law. But it was the sort of metaphor that appealed quite naturally to Assemblagist Vlassis Canairis, 40, who studied medicine at Athens University before turning to the practice of painting and sculpture in 1950. The exhibition that he has mounted in Athens' small "New Gallery" illustrates its vividness, though...