Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think in terms of the impact of large-scale technology on the individual, increasingly in terms of privacy." Westin, like many others, sees much of the court's recent activism as a result of inaction by the other two branches of Government. Says he: "When the nation has a broad political consensus for moving forward, but the political machinery holds it back, the court must go ahead...
...those who, like the late Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view, complains Justice John Harlan, a Frankfurter man, "is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle...
...read the record of the debate that preceded passage of the 1866 bill, the court was persuaded that legislators of the time were well aware of the law's broad implications. Still, said Justice John Harlan in dissent, 100 years ago few legislators really contemplated as much reach as the court has found in the act: "The individualistic ethic of their time emphasized personal freedom and embodied a distaste for governmental interference. It seems to me that most of these men would have regarded it as a great intrusion on individual liberty for the government to take from...
...Kennedy touch" (forward passing legal anywhere on the field) continued on the broad, sloping lawn, with Astronaut John Glenn and then Campaign Bodyguard William Barry taking Bobby's place as quarterback. The children swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...
...pulling the highly diffuse, anarchic organization together under at least regional direction. "If this group does not get together in the next two years," warned National Education Secretary Bob Pardun, "we'll be wiped out." Yet the debates dramatized the difficulty of agreement within S.D.S. on anything but broad goals. Exercising "participatory democracy" to the fullest, delegates spent hours belaboring technical points. After ten hours of discussion, all three resolutions aimed at restructuring the organization were voted down...