Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supremacy or Death. That was not what the settlers had wanted at all, and the constitution turned out to be a death blow to the government. Under a barrage of charges that it was soft on Africans, the United Party was swept out of office in elections the following year...
The Rhodesia Smith inherited was not conciliatory either. When the United Party decided to accept the 1961 constitution, Smith resigned in a rage-and immediately received a telegram of congratulations from archconservative Tobacco Tycoon Douglas Collard Lilford. "Ian Smith, and Ian Smith alone, was the one to get up and...
Californians who voted 2 to 1 last year for Proposition 14-a constitutional amendment voiding state laws against housing discrimination-set the stage for an inevitable and important quarrel in the courts. Now called Section 26 of the California constitution, the amendment states in its key passage:
Last week the argument reached the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles. For five hours, before 200 fascinated spectators and the court's seven justices, nine lawyers presented oral arguments in seven consolidated test cases concerned with one overriding question: Does Section 26 violate the equal-protection clause of...
"The rights to ownership cannot be taken away except by due process," said Pruitt. "No such right to acquire other people's property exists. The nature of the right to acquire property always depends on the willingness of the other person to dispose of it." In short, by restoring...