Word: consents
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...could ask more than that of the U.S.'s new man at the U.N., and at week's end the Senate quickly gave unanimous consent to Goldberg's appointment. Quite clearly President Johnson's immediate aim in naming Goldberg was to put his negotiation skills to work toward solving the U.N.'s crippling financial crisis-caused largely by the Soviet Union's refusal to pay its part of the U.N.'s peace-keeping costs. Last week Goldberg said that he was well aware of "the gravity of the constitutional crisis facing...
Sixty-Minute Split. For divorce-bound New Yorkers, Mexico offered advantages. A Mexican divorce takes one day and roughly $500 (v. $3,000 in Reno), including jet fare to El Paso and cab fare across the border to Juárez. The only real requirement is the mutual consent of the parties to the divorce. Thus in 1954, a Rumanian millionaire named Felix E. Kaufmann spent about one hour in Juárez registering as a "resident" and petitioning the local court to grant him a divorce based on incompatibility with his wife Susan. Susan's lawyer duly appeared...
...years later however, he was less tolerant of such ardor and was deeply concerned by a young Braintree lawyer's attachment to his 17-year-old daughter Abigail. "I ask not Fortune nor Favour," Adams wrote his wife from France, "but Prudence, Talents and Labor. She may go with Consent where ever she can find enough of these...
Chapter 12 of Magna Carta, for example, heralded the principle of "taxation through representation," indirectly inspired the American Revolution by providing that the King should levy no taxes except by "general consent" of the kingdom. Chapters 17 through 19 laid to rest the practice of meting out justice only through the King's traveling court, led to permanently based courts (Common Pleas, King's Bench, Chancery and Exchequer) set up to deal with everything from debts to divorces...
...fringe areas]," he said, "formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance." According to Douglas, "zones of privacy" emanate from the First Amendment's "penumbra" right of association, the Third Amendment's prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" without consent in peacetime, the fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and the fifth's privilege against sel-incrimination...