Word: legalism
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...group of elite law professors from Harvard and other schools filed a legal brief this week asserting that one of the Bush administration’s central anti-terror policies is unconstitutional, a move that brought together scholars from across the political spectrum...
...Qaeda agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, argues that the Military Commissions Act violates the Constitution. The professors argue that the act denies al-Marri the right to a writ of habeas corpus—an order requiring that a “court of law review the legal adequacy of the executive’s grounds for detaining” an individual, according to Frank I. Michelman, Harvard’s Walmsley university professor and one of the scholars who signed the brief...
Although arguments for lowering the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) are reasonably convincing, the US should not repeat its past mistakes. We have already experimented once with a lower MLDA, and the results should be enough to convince even college libertines of the wisdom of limiting alcohol to those over...
...logic would suggest, more legal access to alcohol also means more consumers. Almost all studies agree that states with higher MLDAs fostered citizens who drank less often than those in states with lower MLDAs, both before and after their 21st birthdays. The number of high-school seniors nationally who report binge drinking in the past two weeks has also fallen to below 30 percent on a consistent basis, after topping 40 percent every year from...
...Safe drinking environments would also be more elusive than one would hope under a lower MLDA. The “safe” environments of legal drinkers—bars and clubs— are really not so safe for the impaired. Even if the government allows a student to drink, a student’s school may not, so the result of undercover drinking would remain...