Word: constitutionalized
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One document that has already changed the spiritual life of the church is the constitution On the Liturgy, which led to widespread introduction of vernacular languages in the Mass. Another constitution, On the Church, asserting that bishops collectively share ruling power over the church with the Pope, is the charter...
Of more concern to non-Catholics are the documents that clearly define the end of the church's Counter Reformation hostility to other faiths. One is the much rewritten constitution On the Church in the Modern World, which attempts to express the mind of Catholicism on such matters of...
Not only were the tests difficult to devise; they have proved almost impossible to apply. The court has yet to find a single piece of writing obscene-largely because even the worst smut seems able to meet the test of social importance simply because it seems like literature to some...
Needed Laughter. Justices Black and Douglas would solve the problem by declaring that the First Amendment is no more embarrassed by the publication of prurient pornography than by pink politics. Both activities are fully protected, the two dissenters argued in Roth. While they recognize state power to regulate public morals...
Few Supreme Court decisions have been so universally admired as Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which reversed the burglary conviction of Clarence Gideon, a Florida indigent, because he had been denied free counsel at his trial. The Constitution entitles every defendant to a lawyer, said the court.