Legal Reforms Quotes
The George W. Bush Administration attempted to avoid compliance with American Law and the Constitution by keeping captured terrorists in a Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and claiming that the American law did not there prevail. The Supreme Court twice ruled that the practices of the Administration in dealing with Terrorist prisoners violated the law and the Constitution. Meanwhile world public opinion was very opposed to the Bush Administration practices with captured war combatants which had never been attempted by any other administration. Finally President Bush in June of 2007 announced that Guantanamo would be closed.
Some Republican leaders, unhappy with some judicial decsions with which they did not agree, proposed measures from cutting judicial budgets to impeachment of judges.
Almost all former colonial nations resent the colonialism and tend to overlook some of the benefits. Like European colonialism, the Ottoman Empire brought many benefits and advancements to their subject peoples but the oppression is what is most remembered by future generations. Despite the terrible history of the Ottoman Empire in the Armenian Genocide and some other massacres, the Ottoman Empire had more than a 500 year influence on a great part of the world�Islamic and Christian – much of which was very valuable to the world even today.
This is particularly true with legislation that tries to govern people’s personal behavior. Prohibition, banning of contraception and abortion, restrictive limits on divorce, outlawing homosexual behavior, for example, had public support when they were passed. But societal attitudes changed and the laws were first ignored and violated and then repealed, amended or declared unconstitutional.
