The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday July 5 1909

The party of progress while aiming that diverse subjects of the empire would be welded into a new-born Turkish natiolity by virtue of the constitution determined at the same time to fight with all their might against the disintegration of the Empire. [...] AFTER SECURING THE INTEGRITY OF THE EMPIRE by the 1st article the 2nd article proceeds to dfine the constitutional prerogatives of the sovreign almost on the same lines as those of the British sovereign. [...] As the British sovereign is the head of the English Church and the protector of the Protestant faith so is the Sultan the supreme Caliph of Islamism and the protector of Musalman religion. [...] But the depsition of Sultan Abdul Hamid since the promugation of the constitution establishes the supr macy of the constitution and makes the Turkish sovereign a constitutional sovereign in the strictest sense of the term. [...] On the 6th March 1907 the Appellant applied to the District Judge for revocation of the letters of administration on the ground that the said Ramani Debi was a prostitute ; that he was.