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...terror. This has prompted a race to define the country's founding principles. That contest culminated in the streets of Islamabad last spring when the female madrasah students launched their vigilante campaign against CD shops and massage parlors. "The government point of view is that we challenged the writ of the state, but we believe that the government is challenging the writ of God," says 16-year-old Asma Mazar, a classmate of Aman's who survived the siege. "Pakistan was born an Islamic state, so it is the duty of the government to stop these kind of illegal businesses...
Miller is fascinated by the sustained brilliance with which Lincoln navigated the ensuing national convulsion, attempting to reconcile the obstreperous demands of political and military expediency, constitutional writ and, above all, his own galloping moral intelligence, though in places Miller's reverence for his subject borders on personal-ad territory (and he was tall! And funny!). A more caustic and fallible Lincoln appears in Lincoln and Douglas, which is surprisingly rip-roaring for a book about a series of debates in an Illinois Senate campaign. Lincoln makes fun of Stephen Douglas' height...
...writ of habeas corpus has been a part of Western law since the Magna Carta. The Bush Administration’s disregard for the most fundamental of rights is inexcusable. If we don’t fight for habeas corpus, who will?,” Novey said...
...government assures its critics that habeas corpus remains intact for U.S. citizens; the restriction applies only to aliens and U.S. permanent residents. But not only is this an arbitrary and unjust distinction, it offers little real comfort: Detaining a U.S. citizen without the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus may be illegal, but the only way to challenge an illegal detention—to assert that one is a citizen and deserves basic legal rights—is through a habeas corpus petition. The idea, then, that we are immune from government incursions on our legal rights...
...from the President of the United States. I was touched and flattered--my ego swelled like a self-inflating raft. But more important, the letter has served in the months since as a Rorschach test for everyone who reads it: a minireferendum on the presidency, a war in Iraq writ tiny--but legibly, and even grammatically, with impeccable spelling...