The crowd and the law

The night after the Romanian government cancelled its 'emergency decree,' there was the biggest demonstration of all: half a million people in Victory Square in Bucharest.
LONDON, ENGLAND—In Romania, after five straight nights of mass demonstration in Bucharest’s main square, the government agreed to withdraw an emergency decree that decriminalized various abuses of political power (on the grounds that the jails were too crowded). If you defrauded the state of les...

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