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...Supreme Court went all the way back to an opinion written by John Marshall, the third Chief Justice of the U.S., to uphold the Administration's law foundation for the status-of-forces agreements. Paraphrasing Marshall, the court said: "A sovereign nation has exclusive jurisdiction to punish offenses against its laws committed within its borders unless it expressly or impliedly consents to surrender its jurisdiction." Marshall, C.J., stated this as a legal absolute...
...into New. As Imam, the Aga Khan was a king with no temporal kingdom, a sovereign without subjects, but his inherited spiritual authority fell upon his shoulders at a time when British rule was strong in the Moslem world. Reared by a strong-minded and worldly wise mother, his Moslem training tempered by English tutors, young Mahomed learned early to reconcile the vast differences in two disparate worlds and from the beginning cast his lot and his influence in the direction of British authority. When the Germans tried to win over Islam in World War I, the Aga Khan...
...that would mollify the West. "There is a difference," he said, squirming visibly, "between the rights of Palestine Arabs and the destruction of Israel. We cannot gamble a big war." Then, said Day, "is it right that you now accept permanent existence of Israel as an independent sovereign state...
...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...
...itself. To Coke, the law, however flexible, must be based on permanent principles and rest above persons. To Holmes, the law was based less on permanent principles than on current need, an experiment shifting with the times. To Coke, liberty was "such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." To Holmes, liberty was a fellow to be guaranteed and enforced by that modern sovereign, Government...