Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson...
...Congress was closed, and Velasco appointed a new Cabinet consisting entirely of military men. One of its first acts was to cancel the agreement that the Belaúnde government had reached with IPC. Asked when there would be new elections, General Velasco said nothing. Once more, a Latin American army had taken over a civilian regime. The bloodless coup in Peru brought to three-fourths the proportion of people on the continent living under military rule...
...prime tool by which we as citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps with the court's Senate critics in mind, he traced the history of the amendment arguing that it was the original intention of Congress to have the court interpret and enforce its guarantees-Warren said that the court has for too many years had "sole responsibility for giving content and meaning to the broad mandate of the 14th Amendment." He welcomed "the new willingness" of Congress and the President to share in the task through...
Another issue calling for prompt action concerns the Viet Nam war. Nine suits brought by a total of some 489 reservists seek to have the court declare unconstitutional the 1966 Act of Congress under which they were ordered to Viet Nam. They claim, in part, that Congress cannot give the President such powers in the absence of a formal declaration of war or a national emergency. Justice Douglas ordered a delay in their departure to Asia. But the court majority, which has been reluctant to decide issues involving the legality of the war, is not likely to find much merit...
...have now become sensitive to widespread criticism, and during the coming year are likely to pay a little more attention to public opinion. Actually, the court has done a bit of retrenching in the past two years, and may well leave more and more of the big issues to Congress. Still, the libertarian doctrines developed by the Warren court during the past 15 years are firmly rooted. They are not likely to be abandoned by the men who now sit in the chamber...