[judywillow]

>Does Zimbabwian Law Overrule the Constitution?

That might provide a simple solution for these cases of pedophile priests we keep reading about: Have them assume the missionary position (i.e. tie them up and throw them into a cauldren of water along with carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, salt, pepper etc. etc.), light the charcoal, and proced as in a Tarzan movie. At least I'd assume that's what happens to missionaries in Zimbabwe these days...

[dufekin]

"The law emerges from a conversation with judges, lawyers, professors and law students." Huh? Last I checked, the legislature (many but by far not all of whom just happen to be lawyers) writes laws. And the citizens--most of whom are legally ignorant and disinclined but who care deeply about the future of their country--elect the legislature and have the power to unseat members of the legislature who waver from their attitudes. The law may emerge from a conversation among the people through their elected representatives; however, this Justice vastly overestimates the role that the Founders accorded to lawyers.

As for Zimbabwean law, the Constitution--the document that grants legitimacy to the legislature and establishes inviolable rules under which our republic operates--makes no mention of it, but we do have a Declaration of Independence that I would interpret to mean that we are independent of Britain, and, yes, even Zimbabwe.