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Montesquieu understood that good government demands the dogged nurturing of a society of laws and an attention to the knotty details of governance. This philosopher, wary of zealotry, was no Utopianist. "Even virtue," he counseled, "has a need for limits." A studious lawyer and vintner from Bordeaux's village of La Br??de, Montesquieu sought no leveling of society. He proposed a system of checks and balances whereby the fiats and whims of France's Bourbon throne were limited by established laws and the countervailing powers of a vital, widely dispersed aristocracy...
OCCUPATION: Environmental lawyer and advocate...
...weeks ago to an Inaugural lunch at D.C.'s chic Caf?? Milano, guests have been surprised to find the once reclusive Scalia mixing with the city's power brokers, making small talk and telling jokes. "Lately, I've been running into Nino everywhere," says a friend and fellow lawyer. "He's showing that he actually can be charming and gregarious. It's a sign that he's really interested in the job." --By James Carney and Matthew Cooper
...Afghanistan, Mamdouh Habib was on a bus headed out of the Pakistani town of Quetta when police swooped and arrested him. What, they wanted to know, was an Australian citizen doing in this restricted border zone - a Taliban stronghold - without a permit? "Wrong place, wrong time," says Habib's lawyer Stephen Hopper: the Egyptian-born father of four, who planned to move his family to Pakistan, had simply been looking for business opportunities and a good Islamic school for his sons. But U.S. security agents, who soon took custody of Habib, didn't buy his story. They and their Australian...
...absence of a lawyer would not be admissible. (Five other British prisoners released in March were briefly detained, then freed without charge.) But the arguments may not be over yet. Abbasi and Mubanga's lawyer, Louise Christian, says she is considering taking American officials to court. "I'm also looking at suing the British government," she says, "for not bringing them back sooner." - By Aatish Taseer No Vote GERMANY The governing Social Democratic Party decided not to hold a national referendum on the proposed new European Union constitution. The parliament will vote on the document instead. Stubbing Them Out ITALY...