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...Dershowitz defended the idea, saying the Constituion offers no right to anonymity. He suggested the same argument could have been applied to the income tax, which seemed an even greater invasion of privacy when it was first implemented...

Author: By Evan Lushing, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lawyers Debate Rights | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...main issue lost in the heated debate in Canada over the past two weeks is the question of convention. The British North America Act, while a suitable half-measure, by no means composes an adequate constituion. For instance, most Americans, well schooled in constitutional liberties, probably assume that freedom of speech is a sacred principle in Canada. It is--but by convention, not by law. Or, a foreigner might assume that when an incumbent federal party loses its majority in an election, it must automatically turn over the reins of power to the winning party, and that the incumbent prime...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Unconventional Wisdom | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

...outbreak of the War, in which he won the tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dynamite Prizes | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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