Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...
...analysis of insanity as self-defense: "It may be that the state we call insanity is not always an unalloyed evil. It may take the place of something worse-the wretchedness of a mind not yet dethroned, but subject to the perpetual interference of another mind governed by laws alien and hostile to its own. Insanity may perhaps be the only palliative left to Nature in this extremity...
...Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well in the front line in Italy; another 2,500 Japanese-Americans are elsewhere in the U.S. Army; hundreds serve in Military Intelligence in the South Pacific; 20,000, cleared...
...distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning." When Jefferson became President, one of the first things he did was to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he regarded as unconstitutional. Professor Commager thinks that Jefferson was quite within his powers in thus assuming a prerogative that most people would reserve to the judiciary. For, so Professor Commager argues, if the government of the U.S. is a government by equal and coordinate powers...
...Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes, to protect workingmen, outlaw child labor, assist hard-pressed farmers, and to democratize the tax system. From this analysis the Congress...