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...uncharacteristically creative speech on Commencement Day, June 11, which has generated large public response, Bok presented a fictional account of a Harvard 50 years in the future with 20 branch campuses overseas and vastly increased foreign student representation. This address and another speech at Notre Dame, both of which touted American preeminence in higher education, said specifically that universities should encourage more study overseas and admit more foreign students...
...against which other laws are judged. Instead, an exhaustive compendium of legal codes takes precedence, and the Soviet Supreme Court is not empowered to override such laws by invoking the constitution. "There is no system of checks and balances whereby the judiciary can say to the legislative branch, 'You can't do that, it's against the constitution," says Harold Berman, a Soviet legal expert at Emory University...
...West German constitution, written under the watchful eye of U.S. occupation leaders, sought to prevent the rise of another Hitler by limiting the executive branch. Recalls Joachim von Elbe, a Bonn legal expert: "We did not want to make the Germans just imitate the American constitutional model but rely on themselves to reform, rebuild and overcome the Nazi period." The framers decreed that the Bundestag, or parliament, could not oust a Chancellor without first choosing a successor. That has helped prevent a return of the political chaos that brought the Nazis to power in the 1930s...
Italians, with memories of Mussolini still fresh in their minds, went even further than the Germans in reining in the executive branch. While this has guarded against a new outbreak of tyranny, the inability of any one of Italy's parties to win a majority in parliament has led to frequent political turnover: Italy has had 46 governments since...
...Electronic Age"), and the New York Public Library has arranged some 70 events and five exhibitions. On show now through Sept. 19 is one of the original, handwritten copies of the Bill of Rights and one of only two copies (the other is in London) of the Olive Branch Petition, which marked the last American attempt to reconcile with Britain...