The 12 judges based their ruling on theprinciple of salus populi ex supreme lex (the welfare of the people is thesupreme law of any land), words perhaps more familiar to European lawyers than Pakistanis.
No judicial decision or applicable treaty contradicts this principle, and the U.S. Supreme Court has established that works of international legal scholars can be acceptable as evidence of the law.
Baduel is still commited to socialism (which explains his previous association with Chavez) but at the same time has issued a convincing affirmation of democracy and constituionalism as a supremeprinciple of governance.