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British common law under attack. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
The recent upsurge in violent crime suffered by citizens of Great Britain illustrates that suppressing the right to armed self-defense gives criminals a competitive advantage over the law-abiding population. But just as importantly, it illustrates how denying the right to keep and bear arms acts as a precursor to abolition of other key protections of individual liberty. As the July 19th Sydney Morning Herald reported, "An explosion in violent crime ... has put the ruling [socialist] Labour Party under pressure to take tough measures to get criminals off the streets." The proposed measures invade, or nullify outright, rights and guarantees cherished for centuries under British common law.
On July 17th, British Home Secretary David Blunkett, whose office roughly corresponds to that of U.S. attorney general, "unveiled a complete overhaul of the criminal justice system ... dramatically shifting the balance in court away from defendants in favor of prosecutors and victims," reported the July 19th London Independent. Blunkett's White Paper, entitled "Justice For All," proposes to abolish "the 800-year-old laws governing 'double jeopardy' for serious offenses that prevent a person from ...
- From unwritten to written: transformation in the British common-law...
- Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Jenkins, David May 1, 2003 700+ words
...constitutional model has basis in the common law and the orthodox theories of Blackstone...time to represent shifting norms through common-law adjudication. Furthermore, the Author...illustrates that such a "quasi-written," common-law constitution is already emerging in the...
- The Organic and Moral Elements in the American Consitution - The Constitution...
- Magazine article from: World and I Johnson, Paul February 1, 2003 700+ words
...The principal formative element, however, was the English common law tradition and its use by English parliamentarians, over the...parliamentary history and by court decisions interpreting the common law. The men of Massachusetts wrote to Lord Chatham in 1768 that...
- Common sense and common law.(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Nagel, Robert F. February 1, 2004 700+ words
...assert principles, and even the common law's historical provision for peremptory...makes a convincing case that the common law tradition was to some extent incorporated...speech protected much more than the British common law's condemnation of licensing schemes...
- Dismantling American common law; liberty and justice in our transformed...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2008 700+ words
...9780739123768 Dismantling American common law; liberty and justice in our transformed...KF394 America's reliance on the British common law system set within the context...North Florida) maintains that common law has in fact been abandoned, with...
- STATE URGED TO SPEARHEAD CURBS ON FEDS LEGISLATIVE PANEL HEARS COLORADO `COMMON...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Frazier, Deborah April 30, 1996 700+ words
...veterinarian and leader in the common law movement. Duke, vice chairman...on the petition. The state's common law advocates have petitioned the legislature...founded in the Magna Carta and British common law. The common law movement also...
- COMMON LAW INVOKED IN SUIT.(BUSINESS)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 28, 1995 700+ words
...data ownership on the Internet lies within common law about stealing rather than copyright law...the company is seeking legal relief under British common law, on which U.S. common law is based. ``We're all trying to accomplish...
- Supreme 180s: it doesn't happen often, but when the Supreme Court changes its...
- Magazine article from: New York Times Upfront Greenhouse, Linda March 31, 2008 700+ words
...group of men who temporarily occupy high office." BRITISH COMMON LAW Reliance on precedent is one of the foundations of British common law, on which the American legal system is based. This...
- Common law and federalism in the age of the regulatory state.
- Magazine article from: Iowa Law Review Klass, Alexandra B. February 1, 2007 700+ words
...state has weakened and displaced state common law even in the absence of preemption. However...should be used to inform and develop state common law rather than overshadow or displace it...new federalism," such progressive common law development at the state level may be...
