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right of the people to alter or to abolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Editing the Declaration | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...pursuit of happiness." To secure these rights, Jefferson went on, men establish governments winch derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." And when any government becomes destructive of the safety and happiness of the people, "it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDEPENDENCE: The Birth of a New America | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...said the ruling provided "full remedy to employees who have actually suffered from discrimination." Yet the unions also served notice that they will vigorously oppose any effort to undermine the basic principles of the seniority system. Petitions from civil rights groups are now before the Supreme Court seeking to abolish seniority systems when the rule of "last hired, first fired" results in layoffs of nonwhites and women. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is siding with the civil rights groups; the Justice Department favors the unions' position, in part because from the start seniority lists were exempted from the dictates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOBS: More Seniority for the Victims | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Soviet Union at its opening session in Moscow. "Détente and peaceful coexistence refer to interstate relations. This means mainly that disputes and conflicts between countries are not to be settled by the use or threat of force. Détente does not in the slightest abolish, and cannot abolish or alter, the laws of the class struggle . . . There is no room for neutralism and compromise in the struggle between [socialism and capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Tough Talk on D | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...Elect the Last President," Robert L. Kelleher told his audiences in New Hampshire. Kelleher, a Montana lawyer, was not running as a doomsday prophet, but rather, as the man who would restore parliamentary government in America and abolish the presidency...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: 'The People Have Spoken, the Fools' | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

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