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...point is that modern philosophy, maybe since Marx has taught us the necessary correlation between theory and practice. You don't really believe something unless you are acting for it. We want to abolish the Center, for example, but we don't know how. And so we have an irreconcilable tension in our existence all the way from breakfast to bedtime...
Powers, who just completed a year's graduate study on a federal fellowship, has initiated a seminar in "civil unrest procedures." He plans to abolish the barracks system, which forces a state trooper to live in antiquated housing miles from his home...
...doubt that President Nixon said that he will sign the proposed constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College "if it reaches his desk" [Sept. 26]. Upon approval by two-thirds of each house of Congress, constitutional amendments are not sent to the President but are submitted directly to the legislatures of the several states...
...Arkansas for raping a white woman. Among other things, Maxwell argues that his 14th Amendment right to due process was violated because there were no statutory standards to govern the jury's decision on whether he should be executed or imprisoned. Although the Justices are quite unlikely to abolish capital punishment, they could rule in favor of Maxwell on the jury issue, which might persuade the states to set limits on how and when the penalty can be imposed...
...thanks. His third-party candidacy came so close to denying Richard Nixon an Electoral College majority and throwing the 1968 election into the House of Representatives that the House last week took the first step toward reforming the archaic system that makes such a deadlock possible. It voted to abolish the Electoral College...