Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a legal requirement but also a principle of wisdom and good citizenship for an individual called before a court, grand jury, or a legislative committee, to answer questions frankly and honestly. The constitutional privilege to keep silent is an exception to the legal obligation to testify, but even when the legal privilege is available, there are times when it is best not exercised...
...legal advice of the letter discusses what it calls "a principle of wisdom and good citizenship." In this field persons act and, hence, must be advised, not as individuals protecting their own "rights" and "privileges," but as citizens seeking to do their "duty" to their country...
...logical relevance of this second statement I find very hard to determine. What guidance does one draw from a general principle which, at the specific point in question, is recognized as outlawed by the Constitution? And further, when we are talking about "wisdom and good citizenship," the matter at issue is not a "legal privilege" but a "moral duty." And, that being true, there are no "times when it is best not exercised...
...recruit in ten without a fourth-grade education, the U.S. Army announced a program of "transitional training" at seven training centers to give G.I.s book learning with their bayonet drill. The program will teach reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship, will take two to four weeks depending on how fast recruits pick up what they missed in school...
Charles R> Cherington '35,professor of Government and director of the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government, announced that the Bureau is now administering a $2500 grant to the University from the Citizenship Clearance House, affiliated with the 'Law Center of New York University...