Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A local citizen strode up to Judge "Three-Legged Willie" Williamson's table, pulled out a Bowie knife and said: "Your Honor, this is the law in this country." Said the judge, pulling out his six-shooter: "This is the constitution that overrides the law."
In the U.S., where Daniel Boone killed his "bar" and Annie got her gun, the right of the citizenry to "bear arms" is guaranteed by the Constitution. But all rights are limited, and the 1963 death of President Kennedy at the hands of an assassin with a mail-order rifle...
The schoolgirl test began to crumble in 1933 with the famed ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which held that James Joyce's Ulysses was not obscene -despite its impudent pudendicity and ovablastic genitories -since the "proper test" is a book's "dominant...
The Service will have no constitution and "probably no officers." Hatfield said it will ask only for "commitment to the general direction of the civil rights movement, including the obligation to do some thing specific."
To fight Reconstruction, Klansmen decided to organize nationally. In Nashville, in 1867, they drew up a constitution, picked for their Imperial Wizard the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, and turned their talents to terrorism. Cloaked in their sheets and masks, they rode the countryside thirsting for violence. Anyone-white or...