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"We know that he has not really done himself total justice in a Villa shirt.

This quest for "total justice" has had the effect of creating a far greater role for courts and lawyers: because elected officials aren't sufficiently empowered to bring changes, people turn to the judiciary.

"We want total justice for the authors of state terrorism -- the ex-presidents, the ex-chief of security, the military -- whose names are in all the files of the disappeared".

ONE evening in late September John Perkins, a veteran of the civil-rights movement, attended a rally at a Baptist church in Jackson in support of what he called "a total justice issue".

The rights revolution gave way to what Lawrence M. Friedman, the Stanford legal historian, has called a general expectation of "total justice" -- the idea that courts could compensate individuals for every misfortune, social slight or general brush with unfairness or bad luck.

One reaction to this is to shrug our shoulders – to admit that total justice is impossible, and that therefore we should be satisfied with the limited things we can achieve: the vindication of the innocent, for example, and the punishment of at least some of the guilty.

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O'Connor nevertheless made it clear that three out of nine -- or four of the 112 total justices in more than 200 years -- is hardly good enough.

Taha said that the Sudanese constitution needed to be reformed, in order to reconcile "the individual's need for absolute freedom with the community's need for total social justice".

When Mushfiqur and Mahmadullah were dismissed in quick succession, Pakistan seemed to be wrestling back the initiative but Shakib hammered three fours off Gul's third over to ensure Bangladesh's total did justice to his scintillating innings.

"As constitutional history, precedent, and practice demonstrate, a State or locality may draw its legislative districts based on total population," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court's majority.

You are not brave enough or smart enough to do anything but watch.' The more power and control invested in the hands of the few, the less sum total of justice there is in the world.

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