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Guided by one of the cardinal unwritten rules of negligence practice, lawyers for the relatives and heirs of the victims filed suit against everyone who might be involved-the Federal Aviation Agency, which was in charge of traffic control, United Airlines, and TWA as well. It mattered not a bit that after prolonged investigation the Civil Aeronautics Board pinned the entire blame for the crash on United's pilot...
...some extent, the fears about Home reflect Britain's long and jealous struggle to establish political democracy and protect it from the monarchy and nobility. The last peer to form a government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule...
...speculation that police deliberately failed to produce a defense witness at the trial of "Lucky" Gordon, the Jamaican singer who was imprisoned on charges of beating Christine Keeler, and later mysteriously freed. Since there is no watertight separation of executive, judicial and legislative powers* in Britain's unwritten constitution, the disquieting implication to many Britons was that, in its embarrassment over the Profumo scandal, the government had exerted extraordinary pressure to put Ward behind bars. If such suspicions are unfair, there was little likelihood that they would ever be fully investigated, let alone refuted...
...denied even the resource of gesture, for now she is embedded up to her neck, and can move only her eyes and lips. We can guess that the unwritten third act would find her completely buried...
Ervin: Mr. Attorney General, would you summarize in a brief way why the founding fathers decided to have a written Constitution in the U.S. rather than an unwritten Constitution as in England...