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Marshall, who had been an ardent advocate of the Constitution at the Virginia Ratification Convention was hardly oblivious to the fact that his ruling was not barred by the separation of powers principle. Inherent in the separation of powers principle was the doctrine of checks and balances which afforded the Congress with the function of overseeing the operations of the Executive Branch. Clearly, the power to oversee the affairs of the administrative branch or to investigate the actions of officials in the executive branch must be reinforced with the powers of subpoena...
Deffet has made the System work for him, despite being that rare builder: an ardent advocate of open housing. As a teenager, he worked two summers as a railroad section hand and got to know poor blacks. Out of that experience has grown his conviction that everyone ought to share well in the rewards of the System. Deffet was born and reared in Columbus, attending Catholic schools and later the University of Dayton for two years. After an Army hitch in an Alaska ski troop and several years in his father-in-law's Columbus real estate business...
Thus in the week during which Agnew continued his ardent defense of the President, he also made his boldest declaration of independence. Though Watergate may threaten to sink him-innocent as he may be-with the rest of the Administration, he obviously is making plans to stay afloat...
...exhausted, and 2) disposing of the cans. The realty company sought the help of local businessmen and collected $700. The townspeople hope to meet the remaining deficit of nearly $3,000 by holding a big benefit dance or carnival later this month. To the disappointment of ardent environmentalists, all of the cans will eventually be buried as landfill; earlier plans to recycle the aluminum containers had to be abandoned. Reason: insufficient manpower to separate them from the rest of Fredericksburg's immense mountain of cans...
MOST LIBERALS would probably condemn the McCarthy era as one of the low points in American "democracy." But for some reason, the same people forget, consciously or otherwise, that Richard Nixon was not only one of McCarthy's most ardent admirers, but one of his staunchest allies as well. Nixon, packaged as an upstanding defender of democracy on the basis of his unwavering condemnation of those who took the fifth before McCarthy's committee, received in 1952 the Republican vice presidential nomination as reward for his assiduous loyalty to the Wisconsin senator...