Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...86th Congress convenes this week, Senate liberals of both parties see in the 1958 Democratic electoral sweep a mandate for civil rights legislation. But the path to civil rights-and, in fact to any legislation that a minority wants to fight to the death-is blocked by the prospect of filibuster. The liberals' first major effort, therefore, is aimed at changing U.S. Senate Rule XXII-under which it is virtually impossible to get cloture, i.e., to close off filibusters. What the Rule XXII fight is about...
...that it forces the issue not on the question of the filibuster, but on whether the Senate is a continuing body. In the past, the appeal of sitting in the selfsame, continuing Senate as Webster. Clay and Calhoun has been too compelling for many a Senator otherwise sympathetic to civil rights causes...
...Warren House is a small, pleasantly yellow New England building, picturesque perhaps, but no more so or less so than innumerable other New England buildings. Except for its color it would be, in fact, totally inconspicuous. Yet, this same building has played host to romantic intrigues of the pre-Civil War era, to a drama of exceptional human pathos, and to one of Harvard's largest and most influential departments...
...involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
...respectable safeguard against the vagaries of democracy. Instead of allowing its elimination by a small group of Senators, it would seem far wiser to establish the two-thirds-of-those-present rule as the necessary number to limit debate. Such a compromise will permit the passage of needed civil rights measures without sabotaging a truly useful protection of minority rights...