Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: You call the Electoral College "an undemocratic anachronism" [Jan. 28]. It is, indeed. The founding fathers gave us a republic, in which the franchise was entrusted to qualified voters, not a democracy, with the franchise in the hands of the unqualified mob, which they mistrusted. Benjamin Franklin, when asked...
Most of them eventually dropped the levy in favor of more effective literacy tests, and the 24th Amendment to the Constitution (1964) barred it altogether in federal elections. Nonetheless, four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still tax voters in local and state elections.* Last week, in accordance with a...
The court was all too well aware that it faced a ticklish problem. Under the U.S. Constitution, federal judges are named to serve "during good behavior," which in effect means for life. They can only be removed by the cumbersome method of impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction...
Due Process. Chandler appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the Judicial Council had usurped Congress' authority to remove judges and had denied him due process by not giving him a hearing. Fortnight ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay the Judicial Council's "temporary" order...
When U.S. Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon died in 1914, he left 100 acres to his home town of Macon, Ga., as a park "for the sole, perpetual and unending use of the white women, white girls, white boys and white children of Macon." Half a century later, an expanding Constitution...