Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your statement about "Buddhism's strident inner contradictions" is as naive as saying, "Once a man is an American, he must immediately recognize racial equality because the Constitution of the U.S. recognizes racial equality." Like Americans, Buddhists are human beings. Some of them practice the teachings of the...
In a legal sense, the court's decision merely reaffirmed a rule of 140 years' standing, holding that the Constitution's commerce clause gives Congress sweeping powers to regulate any activity that even remotely affects commerce among the states. But its potential impact upon U.S. race relations...
Clark noted that ever since 1824 the courts have consistently upheld a rule by Chief Justice John Marshall in a famous case (Gibbons v. Ogden, involving steamboat traffic between New York and New Jersey) that the commerce clause gives Congress a power "complete in itself" that may "be exercised to...
Pulled Switches. The problem has been hotly argued. Like the U.S. Constitution, West Germany's constitution bans ex post facto laws-typically, laws passed to render an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable before. The Justice Ministry holds that extension of the statute of...
Future Decision. Justice White's opinion left intact, for now, "what is claimed to be a valid ban on interracial marriage." Though concurring, Justice Potter Stewart sharply protested what he called the court's implication that such a law might be valid if the state could show "some...