An independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our democracy. It is too vital to be used as a means of placating political party’s base. Nan Aron, American lawyer and founder of the Alliance for Justice Part II I believe the founders of America who entrenched the 8th Amendment
(Part I) The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison, a founder of the United States, and fourth President of the
When a marauder destroys your house and takes away your cash and jewellery, his responsibility for his actions far exceeds that of the servant who opened the door to him, whether out of fear, cupidity or because he simply didn’t know any better. Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, writer and a former
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. – Patrick Henry, lawyer and a founder of the United States of America Come in optimistically, but don’t leave misty optically. That was the sublime message
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist The distorted picture of the legal issues relevant and material to the still unresolved MA63 legerdemain was precariously wrought by career politicians with
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian diplomat, politician, historian and poet of the Renaissance period Have you wondered why native law, custom and usage are not deemed to be the supreme law? After all
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx, American comedian, writer, film and television star Sarawakians’ discomfort coupled with growing uneasiness with the Pakatan Rakyat’s concept of Malaysia can be summed in two premises since everyone these
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