Word: writs
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...same time, lawyers for the Panthers began a legal challenge to Murtagh's novel tactic for bringing order back to the courtroom. In a request to State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy for a writ of habeas corpus, they contend that Murtagh's action has the effect of holding the defendants in contempt without the safeguard of specified charges or an opportunity to rebut them in a formal procedure. Murtagh's demand for a written promise to behave, they added, violated their rights by asking them to admit prior criminal behavior...
...first significantly large collective action. In this respect, Andreski says, the organization required to set up armies served as a useful model for government. Andreski cites as one example the development of the infantry phalanx by the ancient Greeks. Individual force was pooled into collective force-a lesson writ large in the philosophy of mass democracy. DEMOCRACY. War is a great leveler. " Under certain circumstances," says Andreski. "the impact of war undermines hereditary privileges, which lower the efficiency of the armed forces, and thus diminishes inequality between classes." In Prussia, that bellicose 19th century European state, "the introduction of general...
...piety and polity. Tentatively called "The Church of Christ Uniting" to imply its openness to other groups that may want to join, the proposed superchurch will be theologically broad-minded in its approach to doctrine but notably bureaucratic in structure. In many ways, it suggests a kind of Episcopalianism writ large and Low. It will also be pointedly interracial...
Previously, young men who defied the draft and wanted a judicial trial of their claims were left with an unpleasant choice. They could refuse induction and hope to win the ensuing criminal prosecution, or enter the service and then go through the slow process of seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Now the Oestereich and Breen decisions establish that anyone whose draft board is guilty of a "clear departure from its statutory mandate" can ask federal courts to review his case before he faces induction...