Word: arguments
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...objective which is within the power of Congress to achieve." He pointed out that Southern states, where racial segregation is the rule, had thus long violated the 14th Amendment, yet now sought to use the end product of that violation -inferior Negro educational and economic attainment-as an argument to keep the Negro from voting, in violation of the 15th Amendment...
...have gone to work in West Germany's booming factories. He settled in Wuppertal, where his wife Eketerini and his elder daughter Helena joined him to work at a cable plant. Vlachos, 42, however, was a moody, tempestuous man, and he eventually lost his job through an argument with a foreman. So when his son Ioannis, 22, who worked near by, decided to send for his 18-year-old wife Niki, the family delegated the idle Vlachos to go home and bring her back from Valtero...
...were admitted, only to have the park's trustees sue, claiming Bacon's will had been violated. The city decided to remove itself as trustee of the park. Private trustees were appointed, and the action was approved in the state courts. Then six Macon Negroes carried the argument to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Amorphous & Far-Reaching." To Justice John Harlan, the last part of Douglas' argument was dubious. "This decision is more the product of human impulses, which I fully share, than of solid constitutional thinking," he said in dissent. He argued that the "public function" of privately established schools and privately established parks is clearly similar. If the majority thought that its decision left "unaffected the traditional view that the 14th Amendment does not compel private schools to adapt their admission policies to its requirements," said Harlan, he did not agree. He found it difficult "to avoid the conclusion that this...
President Johnson argues that "in the states, in private business...the wisdom of longer terms for senior officials has come steadily to be recognized. State after State has adopted a four-year gubernatorial term." It is perhaps too obvious to suggest the irrelevance of this argument. A four-year gubernatorial term is indeed a progressive idea; but almost all these states retain two-year terms for their legislators for equally valid reasons. It is also impossible to follow the President's contention that better men will be attracted into government by a four-year term; on the contrary, many districts...