Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court's reasoning was broad enough to strike down similar jury death-penalty provisions in federal bank-robbery laws and the Atomic Energy Act's national-security section. But it did not affect the constitutionality of capital punishment, currently under broad legal attack. In fact, the court implied that should Congress wish to maintain a death penalty provision in the Lindbergh law, nothing in last week's decision would prevent it from approving legislation enabling judge as well as jury to pass such a sentence. Any such provision would not affect Jackson and his pals, but they...
WHEN, two months ago, 150 Harvard students held a long, fiery meeting to form the Harvard Draft Union, there were tangible signs that a broad based. campus anti-draft campaign had begun. The Draft Union would offer Harvard students a positive way of responding to the prevailing national mood of crisis. A CRIMSON poll had shown that as many as 22 per cent of the senior class were ready to flee the country or go to iail rather than serve in the armed forces. In other words, the potential for resistance was there...
...draft altogether, for a different system of deferments, a volunteer army, etc. There were reasons for this-the Union probably never could have agreed upon a program. It feared, for example, that by calling for an end to the draft altogether it might alienate large segments of its potentially broad-based support. But this, in turn, has made the rallying point an essentially negative one and the basis for the Union's political stand-opposition to the Vietnam war-is eroding...
Statute Too Broad...
Boudin and other defense attorneys claimed that Wall's words were a virtual admission that both the indictment and the statute allegedly violated were too broad...