Word: sovereignity
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...When asked pointedly by an Iraqi journalist on Monday morning if she was interfering in Iraq?s sovereign affairs, Rice said countries like the U.S. who gave lives so Iraq could be ?liberated from a tyrant? have a ?right to expect? the formation of a government, but it is up to Iraqis themselves to chose who will take the seats. ?We should not and will not say who the prime minister of Iraq should be,? said Rice...
...border as a right—if Mexicans believed this, they would be crossing conspicuously, in broad daylight rather than digging tunnels or hiring “coyotes” to smuggle them across the border. Mexicans are well aware that it is the U.S.’s sovereign right to enforce its laws; these immigrants continue to cross only because they have no other choice. Nevertheless, undocumented Mexican immigrants violate U.S. laws. For an immigrant who just wants to provide for his family, however, violating border regulations is the least of his concerns; it is a matter...
...LADY SOVEREIGN...
...said that hip-hop is “the sovereign state of the have-nots.” Take a look around the Yard—there isn’t too much that undergrads can’t have. So, by the Mighty Mos’ standards, Harvard hip-hop is dead in the cradle, right...
...concerned with the conflicts of interest within this majority, or with misrule by the majority.” Though Chertoff is now accused of being an architect of President Bush’s drive to increase executive authority, at Harvard he wrote that a philosophy of adherence to the sovereign abrogated the right to disobey “bad laws.” “Benthamism cannot even provide us with a basis for disobedience of the type that would make disutilitarian bad law void,” Chertoff wrote. “Even if a sovereign enacts...