Word: belief
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...credibility, Nash asked the trial judge to order a psychiatric examination. The judge refused. After Nash received a sentence of 99 to 150 years, he appealed on the ground, among others, of this alleged error. By definition, he argued, a psychopath is a liar and "unworthy of belief...
...California was a rude rebuff to an excellent administrator. In eight years, he helped build the university into the strongest public university in the country. His departure solves nothing, for no reputable successor is likely to agree to replace him until many Californians, particularly Governor Reagan, outgrow their belief that the state can have an excellent educational system and not collect taxes...
...purely objective count, Buckley's apparent belief that integration in housing will come as a natural consequence of "sound moral education" is questionable. Sure, eventually Negroes and whites (with or without sound moral education) will live in the same quality housing, but can we afford to sit around until it happens? Obviously integration in housing is not very high on Buckley's list of priorities...
After the CO signs the required statement, he faces a series of questions which try to determine whether the basis of his claim is religious. The present Selective Service law requires that conscientious objection be based on "religious training and belief." It then defines religious training and belief: "...in this connection [it] means an individual's belief in a relation to a Supreme Being involving duties superior to those arising from any human relation, but does not include essentially political, sociological, or philosophical views or a merely personal moral code...
Most Harvard CO's would have been ineligible for CO status under the Supreme Being clause before the Supreme Court handed down the Seeger decision in March, 1965. In that decision the Supreme Court said, "... the test of belief 'in a relation to a Supreme Being' is whether a given belief that is sincere and meaningful occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God of one who clearly qualifies for the exemption. Where such beliefs have parallel positions in the lives of their respective holders we cannot say that...