Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philosophical issues aside, Reagan has combined a mastery of specifics and statistics with a drumfire attack on the Brown administration's record on sensitive issues. He points out that California's welfare recipients have increased 21 times as fast as the population in the past five years. "The...
Honor guards stood at attention and soldiers checked the lawns with mine detectors last week as the 117 newly elected delegates to the National Constituent Assembly solemnly strode into Saigon's freshly whitewashed onetime opera house. They were there to start the tedious task of building a nation out...
Youth v. Age. Writing that constitution will be the Assembly's duty for the next six months. Last week, as the delegates began organizing themselves into committees, the politicking had already begun. The younger representatives were lobbying vigorously for a share of the chairmanships that in the normal traditions...
Nobody had to. Dirksen got expected support from most Republicans and Southern Democrats, but he ran into a formidable obstacle in the form of North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, whose concern for the Constitution rivals Dirksen's passion for prayer. "For God's sake," bellowed Ervin, "and for...
California seems to be a place where the nation's most progressive state court is forced to cool down the nation's most combustible voters. In 1964, Californi ans overwhelmingly approved amendments to their state constitution that prohibited pay-TV and rejected the fair-housing law that forbade...