Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special Drawing Right, which was supposed to take the place of emergency loans from other IMF nations, the sort France was forced to secure, is still waiting for ratification--as it was waiting a year ago. The argument for change then was convincing; since then it has become damning...
Balliro's first argument is that "Massachusetts birth control laws violate due process of law in that they constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy." The argument is convoluted and seems, to lay eyes, to stretch a number of constitutional amendments...
...state supreme court may rule that the shadow which protects marriage does not reach "illicit intercourse." Balliro did not choose to predict that this argument will convince the court. But the argument does give Balliro a chance to list ways in which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...
Balliro connects it to his argument by citing evidence that contraceptives tend to reduce illegitimate births, so that Massachusetts laws interfere with citizens' rights to protect their welfare...
...ARGUMENT Balliro predicted as likely to convince the court comes in another section of his brief. Since Baird exhibited contraceptives during a peaceful meeting in which he asked his audience to write their legislators to change the laws, Balliro claims that exhibiting the devices was an extension of Baird's rights under the First Amendment...