Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tshombe's eagerly awaited announcement of a government had been delayed by a full 24 hours when Adoula tried to force a woman into his Cabinet. She was Catherine Tshibamba, attractive young wife of the Congo's first doctor. Though women do not have the vote in the...
Tshombe's eagerly awaited announcement of a government had been delayed by a full 24 hours when Adoula tried to force a woman into his Cabinet. She was Catherine Tshibamba, attractive young wife of the Congo's first doctor. Though women do not have the vote in the...
In other actions of the week-long convention, the Lutherans: > Elected the first Negro, New York Lawyer William Ellis, ever to serve on the church's executive council, backed a civil rights statement defending civil disobedience "if and when the means of legal recourse have been exhausted or are...
Standing & Ripeness. Getting unjust laws repealed in the legislature is infinitely more desirable than "just" civil disobedience. But if political persuasion fails, how to change a law in the courts? Article III of the Constitution empowers the federal judiciary to hear "cases" and "controversies," and though the courts can reject...
Rolleston's prospects of winning seem slight. For one thing, he is fighting a law that got the most painstaking constitutional examination by a lawyer-dominated Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution just as fervently as the Supreme Court. What is nonetheless admirable is Rolleston's decision to...