Word: usurper
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When juries usurp the role of the legislature by deciding the wisdom of a law, there can be terrible consequences—exemplified by the refusal of some Southern juries to convict defendants for lynching blacks in the late nineteenth century. Jury nullification undermines the fairness of the legal system by making the enforcement of what should be a uniform standard of conduct dependent only on the opinion of a 12-member jury—without any accountability to the citizenry at large. South Dakota’s proposed Amendment A circumvents the democratic judicial process, and should be voted...
...producer with decades of experience in the Asian market, says Hong Kong also has a language barrier. When studios began making movies in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, Morgan explains, "It was one of the most critical mistakes they ever made. It limited the future." Morgan, who believes Shanghai will usurp Hong Kong in the film world, isn't optimistic: "I think Hong Kong will ultimately end up marginalized." That's no Hollywood ending...
...American government was founded on the individual dignity of the human being, and humans are endowed with rights by God which no one, including the government, can usurp,” Kmiec said...
...fellow Jews in Hitler's Germany. They fought fascism in Spain to strike back at the American fascist elements of racism, police violence against organized workers and inequality of opportunity for Jews, blacks and immigrants. They feared the "fascist" segments of American society would allow full-fledged fascism to usurp American democracy...
FINDS FOR GORE! [or] FINDS FOR BUSH! Decides the Florida Supreme Decides that the Florida Court did not usurp the Supreme Court did overstep Florida legislature's power its bounds in extending the when it extended the deadline ballot-counting deadline from...