A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R Murrow, American journalist America, reportedly, is being attacked by the cancel culture destroying reputations and careers, censoring and banning patriotic and contrary viewpoints on social media. Academic freedom and intellectual interchange in higher education has not been
A constitution should be construed with less rigidity and more generosity than other statutes. — Justice Nik Hashim, Federal Court, Malaysia Malaysia’s Federal Constitution (FC), once sanctimoniously dubbed the “document of destiny,” was initially developed as a document of harmony inviting “a certain set of principles of constitutional interpretation which
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman, American economist There are some strangely structured governments whose outlandish policies shockingly define the electorate’s naiveté and gullibility coerced, cajoled and guided by open-ended laws, rules and regulations meant to tacitly confuse and confound.
Pitiful, isolated, bankrupt individuals, go where you belong from now on into the dustbin of history. – Leon Trotsky, Marxist revolutionary The stench from the dustbin of history of the British Empire will be unbearable if there is validity concerning King Edward IV’s (1442-1483) illegitimate birth and, thus the illegitimacy
Nattering nabobs of negativity predict and prophesy about the effects, side-effects and after-effects of granting Undi18 rights. This became a national talking point when five youths filed a petition in court questioning the government’s delay in implementing the law passed on July 16, 2019 that lowered the minimum age of
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. — William L. O’Neill, American historian It is widely held that the Donald Trump presidency became necessary because the voters were sick and tired of the tried and tested politics that called the shots for hundreds of
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., former Associate Justice of US Supreme Court Being a rationale for freedom of expression, debate and discourse, the marketplace of ideas is a perpetually robust laboratory where mankind’s philosophical and technological expectations
The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution. – Thomas Sowell, American economist While the Americans are said to be champions of civil liberties and fundamental rights, lawyers familiar with the “constitutional avoidance” doctrine know how their judges take shelter behind it if not motivated to lock horns
Liberty lies in the hearts of the people; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court, can save it. — Learned Hand, American appellate judge. The UK, Saudi Arabia, Canada, New Zealand and Israel function with “uncodified or unwritten constitutions.” The Westminster subtleties of government authority and citizens’
But stars cannot shine without darkness. — Anon The unknown, the unknowable and, by extension, total ignorance, repose in darkness as a choice. In politics, the unknown and unknowable are legislatively protected and placated by the Official Secrets Act, oaths of secrecy and secret verbal covenants. Governments use it very effectively
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