"Whatever else may be said of capital punishment," Justice Potter Stewart wrote for the majority, "it is at least clear that its imposition by a hanging jury cannot be squared with the Constitution".
"Whatever else Bush v. Gore may be," Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr. wrote for the majority, "it is first and foremost a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and we are bound to adhere to it".
Why should Mr Mbeki seek to flout the wishes of the Zimbabwean majority?It is a sad truth that the main reason for Africa's malaise has been bad government.
Because a party may withdraw from a coalition over a policy or some other issue, and because the opposition may demonstrate through a vote of no confidence that the government has lost its majority, it is possible for the government to change between elections.
With its big majority, it is confident it will prevail.
When the 1979 election result produced its climax of a Thatcher-led Conservative majority, it is quite likely that Varley felt almost a sense of quiet, if sad, relief.
With the DPA enjoying only a slender majority, it is potentially only one crisis away from losing its grip on power.
So long as Congress casts its net broadly over an interstate market, according to the majority, it is free to regulate interstate and intrastate activity alike.
Our view is that the transfer system isn't tenable; for the vast majority it is untenable".
Now that Republicans are in the majority, it is the Democrats' turn to do the goading.
Four seats short of a majority, it is the biggest bloc in the new Parliament.
