Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petitioned for liberty of speech and action, cagey Edward Coke pointed out to the members the potentially fatal error of begging for something that was already theirs by right of law. "Take heed," he said, "that we lose not our liberties by petitioning for liberty," and: "If my sovereign will not allow me my inheritance, I must fly to Magna Carta...
...remedies were habeas corpus (its use as a safeguard against unjust imprisonment was only beginning to emerge) and that great milestone of liberty, the Petition of Right, which set out at length what Coke put bluntly in brief: "Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." When Charles, cornered by lack of money, gave sour assent to the petition, there "broke out ringing of bells and bonfires" such as London had not seen for years. But the petition was Coke's last great achievement. When Parliament rose, he retired into the country. He could...
...discussions with President Eisenhower on U.S.-Japanese relations, Japan's new Conservative Premier Nobusuke Kishi had won his country's greatest postwar victory. It consisted of a set of fundamental changes in Washington's Japan policy that will go far toward establishing his fully sovereign and renascent country as the U.S.'s coequal partner in the Far East. In a joint communiqué issued by the President and the Premier after their talks and from less official leakage, it was plain that Kishi had come, seen...
...original theme is that of the alternation of the conflict and the agreement of two Renaissance principles in the person of England's monarch--that the sovereign must observe justice and that friendship is superior to sexual love...
Rights Conceded, Rights Gained. Argument over status of forces does not end, of course, with the pragmatic fact that it is working well. Ohio's Senator John Bricker takes a stand upon "150 years of national policy and international law" to argue that every sovereign government has exclusive jurisdiction over its own forces in all circumstances. The Justice and State Departments flatly deny this interpretation, hold that in law the host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied...