Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: The Dirksen rider [Sept. 18] is a more arrogant attack on the right of the court to interpret the Constitution than Roosevelt's court-packing plan. It defies the separation of powers. It does not attempt to steal a few thousand votes but to dilute millions of votes...
Sir: The clergymen are right. So many good, honest, God-directed causes have been wrecked by that tribunal in recent years that there remains only one answer: a series of amendments to the Constitution that will stop this court from pampering known criminals and Communists, contributing to the moral decline...
By the end of July, the Negro movement was stalled. Overwhelming compliance with the Civil Rights Law had seemed to lift a moral burden from the nation's conscience. The Goldwater Convention had stolen from the movement Morality, the American Heritage, the Constitution, and God. And liberals were busily setting...
Mississippi-born Dr. Jackson was first elected to the presidency shortly after the National Baptists had amended their constitution to limit tenure of the presidency to four one-year terms. In 1957, there was much hollering and chair throwing at the church's annual meeting when Jackson declared the...
Author Lewis has covered the Supreme Court with distinction for the New York Times since 1955. He clearly had his mind set for some time on a book that would explore both the day-to-day workings of the court and the long-term developments in legal thinking that have...