Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Southern Rhodesia achieved "responsible self-government" more than 40 years ago as a territorial member of the British Commonwealth. But since then, with the emergence of black-ruled independent states throughout Africa, the definition of responsibility has changed. Under Southern Rhodesia's constitution, only 60,000 of the na...
Britain refuses to grant Southern Rhodesia full independence until this inequity is remedied, while Southern Rhodesia's "cowboy government" - so named because its ruling, white-supremacist Rhodesian Front Party consists mostly of ranchers - threatens to buck rather than submit to the rowels of a black majority. The cowboys say...
The U.S. Constitution outlaws coerced confessions. And an accused person has a right to refuse to answer self-incriminating questions. But what if the "question" consists of a forced haircut?
To build an airtight case, the cops aimed to show that Neal had worn the hoods that were discarded near both holdups. Their method was to match hairs on the hoods with hairs on Neal's head. Armed with a court order from Common Pleas Judge Edward Griffith, the...
"It's not that the FBI is stupid or malicious," said Zinn, "they're just cold.--They just don't care." To solve this problem he proposed a special federal police force, designed to enforce the Constitution in the South, to stand armed at the polling booths, and to follow...