Word: burtons
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Some council members have always thought the constitution needed reworking, but recent developments--from the rejection of a term bill referendum to the impeachment of council Vice President John A. Burton '01--convinced the vast majority of the council to seek constitutional reform...
...most frequently cited reason for reforming the constitution was the impeachment of Burton, which triggered an exhaustive debate about the constitutionality of such a proceeding...
Many council members see the Constitutional Committee primarily as a way to avoid the ambiguities that plagued the Burton debate. The committee should sift through the constitution and correct inaccuracies, vagaries, redundancies and internal contradictions, they...
...declaration of independence from the Clinton administration over the Elian Gonzalez case as somewhat Clintonesque. After all, the President managed in 1996 to break the Republican electoral hold on Florida in part by ignoring the advice of his own foreign policy team and signing into law the Helms-Burton Act, an anti-Cuba legislative package sponsored by two of the most conservative legislators on Capitol Hill. But Clinton's move came amid the nationwide revulsion over the shooting down by Cuban MiGs of an unarmed plane flown over Cuba by exile activists; America appears considerably less enthusiastic about a political...
Council Vice President John A. Burton '01 sponsored the feedback card bill--his first of the semester--which allocates $55 towards facilitating student input on the council and passed easily...