Word: consent
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...protect both the person's freedom of conscience and his freedom to express his convictions . . . The state is not the Lord of the conscience." As might be expected of a message from Christians, the report was strong in defense of human and political rights, warning that "government without consent of the governed cannot be approved by Christians in our time." But in an appraisal of problems faced by new nations, it admitted the likelihood of "emergencies" that "seem to call for temporary authoritarian regimes." "Some of these systems," it said, "are more authoritarian than those whose outlook has been...
Like the human appendix, the vestigial Blue Laws, often painful in their enforcement, ought to be removed. In an earlier time, the approval of a majority of the populace may have provided these statutes with a just raison d'etre. Now, the lack of consent among that same majority has transformed them into nothing but a source of irritation and laughter. Only two groups remain to defend what have become really illegitimate impositions on the rest of the state. The first, the minority which believes militantly in the faiths which formerly predominated in Massachusetts society, still refuses to recognize that...
ADVISE AND CONSENT dramatization of Allen Drury's Pulitzer-prize winning novel is at the Wilbur. The play Farley Granger and Chester Morris. Phone...
Conquering Design. Stevenson argued that the admission of Red China would 1) be irreversible. 2) add a "disruptive and demoralizing influence" to the U.N., 3) shake public confidence in the U.N., especially in the U.S., "and this alone would significantly weaken the organization," and 4) give tacit consent to Red China's "design to conquer Taiwan and the eleven million people who live there...
ADVISE AND CONSENT, an adaptation of Allen Drury's best-selling novel, opens at the Wilbur on Monday, for a three-week run. Chester Morris and Farley Granger star...