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...competition for the minds and brains of the people" between rival ideologies. Both Kennan and Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak answered that it is hard for the West to consider the competition "noble" so long as the Reds deny personal liberty and depend on rule by coercion...
Concise & Limpid. Natural law dictates the relationship between men and nations. But these relation ships must be ratified and established by human law, and Pope John applauded that fundamental of Western democracy, government by constitution. Rejecting government by coercion, the Pope endorsed the explicit definition of the rights and duties of governments and citizens in every nation's basic law, including a charter of fundamental human rights written "in concise and limpid phraseology...
...misdemeanors are, in a technical sense, crimes. The same constitutional rights apply to the most minor misdemeanor as to the most serious felony." > The California Supreme Court has just refused to apply Escobedo retroactively in a murder case. The court saw Escobedo as aimed at "drying up sources of coercion in the future," but not applying to prisoners convicted before the decision. "To require a general release of prisoners of undoubted guilt would be to cripple the orderly administration of the criminal laws." The New Jersey Supreme Court has made a similar decision. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court agrees remains...
Martha Derthick, instructor in Government, said the only way to solve urban problems was through an increase in coercion, a greater concentration of political power. Such solutions, however, would involve a decrease in the individual's freedom of choice and a corresponding decrease in democracy in urban areas, she said...
...strengthen the hand of the Gen Ed Committee in its battle to staff its courses. Whether or not its recommendations will succeed, if they are adopted, is an open question, but they combine the carrot of sabbaticals and the stick of quotas into a system of persuasion and coercion more extensive than anything yet tried. It is questionable, however, how they will offset the idea in the minds of junior Faculty members that their promotion will depend more upon their work in their departments then upon the inspirational quality of their Gen Ed lectures and sections. Motivating teachers, however...