Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have, no doubt, been deluged with irate letters from various Latter-day Saints pointing out your misinterpretation in naming Laman and Lemuel as the ancestors of all colored races [April 13]. Actually, they are considered the ancestors of the American Indian, who is afforded full brotherhood among the Mormons. The Negro, however, is considered a descendant of Cain and subject to his curse. Negroes are thus denied the Mormon priesthood (open, in effect, to all non-Negro males...
...report, prepared by 13 American agricultural experts at the request of the Indian government, makes these points...
...letter, Pusey terms the section "a direct personal affront" to the faculties and student bodies of American colleges. "The Congress has singled out," according to Pusey, "our college people alone as a special group and then said to them by implication, 'We are not sure you are fine loyal Americans. As a matter of fact, we rather think...
Justice Felix Frankfurter, author the majority opinion, defended his position, stating that the basic concept of American Federalism--the coexistence of state and Federal power--would be violated by banning successive prosecutions...
...split in the Law School faculty centers around these two issues: whether it is better to destroy some of the precepts of Federalism or to violate double jeopardy, one of the oldest concepts in Anglo-American...