Word: conflicted
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State legislators across the country are now clamoring for a convention to propose a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, and liberal oracles everywhere warn it would entangle the branches of government in a messy constitutional conflict. The convention method of amending the Constitution has remained unused ever since the Philadelphia convention wrote it in for the states to use against a Congress that ignored the nation's will. Under the process used for each of the 26 amendments now on the books, Congress proposed the change and three-fourths of the states ratified it. Article...
...Congress should outline rules which a convention found unacceptable, the Supreme Court's judicial review prerogative remains a final safeguard against open conflict. The states, the convention, and Congress would almost certainly accept the Court's ruling; though many of its individual past decisions have been controversial, the Court's right to judge on constitutional issues has the weight of two centuries of tradition behind...
...especially to Artson, who planned to run for president, the new members posed a major threat. "If they had all showed up at the election meeting," noted one sophomore who ran for club office, "we would have been demolished." Some members even favored invalidating the new memberships. But the conflict between the freshmen and the older members never materialized. Both groups rapidly learned that they were on the same side of most of the issues. Everyone wanted more debates, more lobbying action, more money, and more activities--but neither side realized that a consensus existed until just days before...
...WORLD is in flames all around Jimmy Carter. Our new Chinese friends and their Soviet competitors are caught up in a proxy war in Indochina, which could spill over into superpower conflict; the collapse of the Shah and the shaky status of Mideast peace negotiations have exposed U.S. impotence in the region; and there are other political kettles ready to boil over in Pakistan, southern Africa, and the Horn. In all of this, the U.S. has been unprepared, uneasy or unable to influence events as it would like. The death of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul, plus the take-over...
Stress the political benefits of SALT II. The treaty is another step on the road to cooperation with Moscow. Kissinger's original conception of detente held that limited cooperation would lead to cooperation instead of conflict in ever-growing amounts; in a sense, he expected that cooperation would train both sides in conflict resolution. Such training, provided by a successful SALT pact, could come in handy in future crises. Besides, accepting SALT II will help convince the Soviets that we are not backing Peking in its histrionics in Southeast Asia; this will reduce edginess in the Kremlin, and perhaps even...