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The new juristocracy.
From the Founding right up until the still-quaking bombshell of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, issued at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, the primary imperative of national government was to protect the security of the governed from hostile outsiders. The Framers, however, had an ingenious gloss on this venerable first principle. In the great American experiment in republican democracy, this power of self-preservation--what Justice Felix Frankfurter, in another era of grave peril, called "the most pervasive aspect of sovereignty"--would repose only in those political actors directly accountable to the people whose lives hung in the balance.
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- The Body Politic. (pro-choice newsletter)
- Magazine article from: Afterimage February 1, 1995 700+ words
...workers. Although the Body Politic does include a column...Policy. Articles in the Body Politic are often casually...social movement in the United States to be organized primarily...roaches. . . ." the Body Politic is avenue for a refreshing...
- Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: from Britain's renaissance to...
- Magazine article from: The Geographical Review Cosgrove, Denis January 1, 2003 700+ words
...Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic is by far the most sustained...landscape in the formation of the body politic in northern European nation...and Germany) and in the United States. "Body politic" as a seventeenthcentury metaphor...
- The problem body politic, or "these hands have a mind all their own!": figuring...
- Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly Olney, Ian October 1, 2006 700+ words
...that it poses a threat not just to the body, but to the body politic as well. As Paul K. Longmore observes in his groundbreaking...nineteenth- and twentieth-century eugenicists in Europe and the United States and--most notoriously--by the Nazi Party in Germany...
- Crippling The Body Politic
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jonathan Yardley December 13, 1995 700+ words
...distinguish between the two. Is Bill Clinton president of the United States or host of our biggest national talk show? Is Rush Limbaugh...principle or conviction but by emotion and prejudice. A body politic that not so long ago was urged to reason together now finds...
- Film: Film's body politic
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Richard Combs April 11, 1996 700+ words
...If these films aren't playing to our concern for the body politic, or to our interest in history, what are they playing to...The Civil War was a crucial event in the making of the United States, and the subject of its cinema's founding masterpiece...
- body knowledge, empathy, and the body politic.
- Magazine article from: The Humanist TODD, JUDE March 1, 2001 700+ words
...was born, Franklin D. Roosevelt was head of state in the United States and Adolf Hitler was head of state in Germany. I was, of...leader was the "head of state," that I was part of a "body politic" --or that bodies are less important than their heads...
- Who took the body out of the body politic? There are many suspects. One is the...
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Grossman, Lawrence K. January 1, 2003 700+ words
...paralysis, the apathetic attitude [that] has spread over the body politic." Their wake-up call appeared in the October 15, 1924...indication for the future of our democratic governance. The United States today also has an alarming class gap in voter participation...
- GERMANS AND THE BODY POLITIC
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) October 4, 1994 700+ words
...poachers are starting to threaten the species in North America. Some 40,000 bears are legally hunted each year in the United States and Canada, but it's estimated an equal number are poached, and many are found with the gall bladder, where the bile...
Source: HighBeam Research, The new juristocracy.