Word: coercion
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...conviction. Although the lawyers were unable to prove physical brutality, they declared that the prisoner's mental background-three psychiatrists had attested to the fact that Fikes was schizophrenic, or, as his mother had put it at the trial, "thick-headed"-made him highly susceptible to psychological coercion, which the state had undoubtedly used in getting him to confess in violation of his rights under the 14th Amendment...
...power of resistance of this petitioner, who cannot be deemed other than weak of will or mind, deprived him of due process of law." From Justice John Marshall Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record, the state authorities did nothing more serious in their handling of the case than "offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism about combating crime too energetically." In any case, wrote Harlan, since reasonable men could differ...
...readers of books the minority declares unsuitable. Fischer quotes the eminent Roman Catholic moral theologian, Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., of Woodstock College, Md. "No minority group has the right to impose its own religious or moral views on other groups, through the use of methods of force, coercion or violence," says Father Murray. It is especially unwise for Catholics, he adds, "lest the Church itself be identified in the public mind as a power-association. The identification is injurious; it turns into hatred of the faith...
...regardless of the relative merits or demerits of going steady, a student's personal life and dating behavior concern only the Church and the Home, and should not be subject to regulation or coercion by public officials. This is especially true when the regulation represents a view which is not necessarily held in many homes and by many churches...
...that they should "dump" Senator George, because he refused to obey F.D.R. and pack the Supreme Court. Mr. Eisenhower believes in trying to convince Congressional leaders of the wisdom of his proposed legislation, but he refuses to pass that legislation either through intimidation, favor-giving, or any form of coercion. It is true that some very worthy pieces of legislation have been defeated in this last session of Congress, but that is the price we must pay for our Constitutional concept of separation of powers...