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To: Siva Uppalapati who wrote (159825)	3/30/2005 2:12:32 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

' .... Although 80 percent of Indians are Hindus, India has a Sikh prime minister and army chief, a Muslim bachelor as president, and an Italian-born Roman Catholic widow as the power behind the throne. Nor was this the result of backroom deals: Sonia Gandhi was the Congress Party's star campaigner in last year's general elections. Indians are fiercely proud of this quirky historical confluence, and really do not think they need lessons on religious tolerance and political pluralism from countries that are yet to have elected heads of government who come from outside the majority religion - or women as heads of government....' Message 21177417 Has India retained a common law system, Siva? ... there's a theory, started by an Andrei Shleifer, that societies with the common law will tend to do better than those using a civil law system .... reason being, the common law tends more to uphold individual rights, while civil law reduces judges to functionaries applying legislation, and all law is statutory ... called the legal origins theory, mentioned by people talking about ideas of Hernando de Soto .... Taiwan has their legal system based on the german civil code from days of Bismarck, and that of China's is considered basically more or less the same