Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...procedural problems, and the Constitution leaves the details fuzzy, but the founding fathers would not have included the option if they never meant anyone to use it. The legal issues are thorny but not unresolvable; opponents of a balanced-budget amendment should rely on the merits of their argument against the amendment itself, and not resort to alarmist exaggerations of the size of the legal problems...
...ALARM continues, and the constitutional argument dominates the controversy. The legal questions are numerous--a memo prepared by Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, which the White House is distributing, lists 21 separate ones, all of which it calls "unanswerable." But the most important one--the one which raises the spectre of large-scale constitutional revision--is whether Congress or the states can limit the convention's agenda...
Sitting in the courtroom, Yates realized for the first time "just how much power a judge really has. She was handling cases at an average of three minutes each." When his turn came, Yates pleaded guilty and made a "philosophical rather than legal argument" in his defense. Yates believes his argument, as well as overcrowding in the Piscataquis County Jail, influenced Judge Jesse Brigg's decision. She handed down a $50 suspended sentence, and, when reached for comment later, said that "the crime was not particularly worth a night in jail, which Yates had already spent...
Despite the final lopsided score, the meet was marked by intensity and controversy throughout--during the last sabre bout a long argument between Harutunian and the director-referee erupted...
...impugn the good motives of the Engelhard Foundation," but would be poor "donor relations." Who would be willing to donate money if they knew the University would investigate the morality of their lives? President Bok said last month, "This type of thing should not be done ad hoc." This argument seems reasonable. Though it does not absolve Harvard's guilt for naming the library after Engelhard in the first place, it does, as Bok implies, point to the need for a general policy that would apply to all donors...