Word: binde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ties that bind all her sons heart to heart...
Then, completely on his own, Vinson lumbered into an extraordinary proposition. Said he: the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. Hence, "our treaties represent not merely,legal obligations, but show congressional recognition that mutual security for the free world is the best security against the threat of aggression on a global scale." His implication: the President's seizure was justified because the international obligations of the U.S. require a maximum flow of steel for its own defense and for its allies...
...ribbon bow to bind my hair, If I had a fancy sash, my own true love would think me fair...
...Bind the Man Down. At a nod from Vinson, John Davis strode forward to build his case against Harry Truman. Had the President seized the steel plants under authority of any statute? He had not. He had, in fact, declined to use the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress's remedy for heading off important labor-management disputes. "Having that weapon at hand, any effort on his part to forge a new and different weapon only aggravates the claim of usurpation which we are compelled to make. There was no statutory framework for this seizure. What then...
...gaze on the high, coffered ceiling, and softly quoted the words that Jefferson wrote in the Kentucky Resolutions, which in a sentence sums up the theory that public officials are servants of the law: "In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution...