Congratulations, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudry
I don’t know anything about the Pakistani legal system. But I know enough to know that Pakistan’s lawyers and the public believe in the rule of law.
They believe strongly enough to take to the streets. I think it’s because they know how important the rule of law is to democracy.
Sometimes I spend so much time studying the noodling details of the law, that I lose the bigger picture. I lose the forest for the trees, so to speak.
Interestingly, in the same Wall Street Journal, I read a letter from Terry L. Anderson of Bozeman’s Political Economy Research Center. He was pointing out that one major cause of poverty on American reservations is a failure of the Department of the Interior to create a strong rule of law–especially for property rights. Right here in America.
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