Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbolic sense, that still-born raid on Radcliffe reflected the premature end of a certain frivolous irresponsibility. The class of '67 soon learned that the business of being a student was serious stuff and that to be taken seriously (a major criteria for all action), students would have to allow commitment, and involvement...
...major difficulty is how to turn community participation into good education. One proposal advocates electing local school boards and then giving them wide powers over policy-making and personnel hiring in their districts. Another proposal would allow a community committee to select each school principal, while extending his authority. A third would elect district superintendents...
...Action for Boston Community Development, the local War on Poverty agency, should allow full and meaningful community representation on its policy-making executive board. Other city agencies should also give Roxbury a real chance to be heard in the decision-making process...
...been understandably reluctant to try to extend such power to directly oppose Congress, which has control over the Court's appropriations, membership, and jurisdiction. In Kilbourn v. Thompson, it acknowledged that it could not consider charges against Senators for actions performed in their official capacity, but it did allow the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to be sued. Presumably, the Court could order the Clerk of the House to inscribe Powell's name on the list of members, but it would be powerless to force the House to stop treating him as a non-member...
...action as an extension of their constitutional right to expel members of the House. This extension seems unjustified. As one Law School professor has pointed out, exclusion only requires a majority vote and assumes a preliminary judgement by the electorate; expulsion requires two thirds and seems intended to allow members to deal with a colleague who has acted wrongly once elected. The power of expulsion is lumped together in the Constitution with each chamber's right to "punish its members for disorderly behavior," suggesting that it is intended to protect the regular operation of each session of Congress rather than...