Enforcing the rule of law is not the usual practice of anyone in Haiti who wants to have a political career.

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The cardinal rule is to practice a bit of common sense.

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According to Mr Mogra, these include - respect for other people and the rule of law, freedom of expression and religious practice, participation in the democratic system and valuing education.

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Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the rule is that it will, in practice, apply almost exclusively to schools that operate on a for-profit basis.

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Unfortunately, a rule proposed by the Internal Revenue Service would overturn this practice and likely result in the flight of hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S. financial institutions.

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It creates an unfair, jump-the-gun, time-to-market advantage, by ignoring the rule of law standard of securing permission from property owners before use in the marketplace, a business practice that law-abiding competitors must respect.

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Only the blessed accident of a hung parliament (in which neither main party will have a working majority) at the next or some future election can lead to reforms of parliamentary practice, to greater accountability and to the constitutional checks on minority parliamentary rule that Britain now lacks.

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In practice this never happened, particularly as Germany and France both fell foul of the rule.

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