Word: beg
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J.F.K.'s speech was rhetorically effective, but it appeared to beg the issue. Granted that a politician's duty is to pursue, conscientiously, the public interest without fear or favor. But why should not the church play a role in forming and guiding the conscience of its adherents? For example, non- Catholics have seldom complained when bishops took politically progressive stands, like excommunicating Dixie satraps who fostered racial discrimination...
...poor have a constitutional right to beg? Yes, says New York federal district-court judge Leonard Sand. In a novel ruling, Sand found that panhandling is a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. "A true test of one's commitment to constitutional principles," he wrote, "is the extent to which recognition is given to the rights of those in our midst who are the least affluent, least powerful and least welcome...