Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙EDUCATION. To foot the increasing costs of education, the platform suggests "new methods of financial aid," including "channeling of federally collected revenues to all levels of education, and, to the extent permitted by the Constitution, to all schools." The plank also proposes "to ensure that all students who can...
Thus last week General Nguyen Khanh promoted himself from Premier to President and took over virtually absolute power - at least in theory. He promulgated a new constitution abolishing his previous post of Premier as well as that of figurehead Chief of State, which had been occupied by Khanh's...
The announcement only hastened the inevitable. Kenyatta has never favored the present British-inspired constitution, which gives what he considers too much power to Kenya's seven regional governments-three of which are now in the hands of the opposition Kenya African Democratic Union party (KADU). He has long...
Both the complaints and their origins have been thoroughly probed and weighed by Yale Kamisar, law professor at the University of Minnesota. What the critics "are really bristling about is tighter enforcement of long standing restrictions," writes Kamisar in a Cornell Law Quarterly analysis. The restrictions come straight out of...
Its critics call it inbred, conservative, Southern-dominated. This reputation stems from such instances as the time (1910) when the A.B.A. president decried the "dangerous" doctrine of interpreting the Constitution as "an elastic instrument." Nearly half a century later, A.B.A. orations on the same theme reportedly drove Chief Justice Warren...