Nidaa Tounes won parliamentary polls in October, making Essebsi favourite to be the next president, but with powers curbed under constitutional amendments to guard against a return to dictatorship.
The guards were charged with manslaughter and weapons violations in 2008, but a federal judge dismissed the case in 2009, ruling that the Justice Department withheld evidence and violated the guards' constitutional rights.
Ms. Shroff's supervisor, David E. Patton, chief of the federal defenders office, said, "The right to remain silent and the right to counsel are fundamental constitutional protections meant to guard against government abuse.
❦ When Thatcher intervened in the constitutional conventions that had guarded the Corporation's independence from government, Whitelaw cashed in his loyalty to the prime minister to protect the BBC.
However, to retain our right to free speech, we cannot selectively eliminate the constitutional facet that includes guarding each and every citizen's right to "pursue happiness".
That type of gubernatorial of overreach is considered a no-no by a legislature which zealously guards its constitutional lawmaking authority.
South Africa has one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, jealously guarded by a Constitutional Court that does not hesitate to rule against Mr. Mbeki.
While the White House may have been prepared for the public unhappiness over the provision, it appears to have been caught off guard by the constitutional challenge — in part because Obama advisers regarded the mandate as a conservative notion.
The government also revised the rules to say that the only role of the armed forces was protecting the country and "preserving its unity," rather than the broader writ to guard Egypt's "constitutional legitimacy".
And he has a long-standing, if guarded, interest in constitutional reform, an issue that seldom animated his predecessor.
It was central to the vision of those facilitating the emergence of a new society, and was constitutionally guaranteed by a Bill of Rights to be guarded by the constitutional court and the commissions for human rights and gender equality.
