Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The stormy Court-centered argument thunders in a different vocabulary these days. No longer are the Justices automatically split between liberals said to be bent on destroying big business and conservatives accused of old-fashioned economics. No longer is the Court derided as a collection of nine old men too...
Savory & Unsavory. If the Court has yet to officially accept some of Black's pet views of the Constitution, it has nonetheless swung his way ever since Chief Justice Warren came to Washington in 1953 and pulled together a divided Court that, within a year, unanimously outlawed school segregation...
∙ CRIMINAL JUSTICE: In a 1949 decision, the Court allowed states to accept or reject the "exclusionary rule," based on the Fourth Amendment, which bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. But then came 1961's Mapp v. Ohio, ordering all states to obey the rule that even...
Although he scored Goldwater's ideal of "total victory" over Communism, he concentrated mainly on the Arizona Senator's domestic policies, and his selective reverence for the Constitution. "Freedom according to Goldwater," he said. "Is freedom of a small group of people to exploit the others."
Finding its single-issue approach too narrow last spring, Tocsin amended constitution to include problems of economics and civil rights. But it was still basically a peace group, and its member's interests had outgrown Tocsin's boundaries. When Anthony Graham-White '65, Tocsin president wrote to its other three...