Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberal opponents of the reduction seemed to fear that in the future they might want to form an obstructionist minority. They, and the present opponents of effective civil rights legislation, fail to see that minority rights are those protected by the Constitution; the freedom of a minority to debate is...
Opponents of the reduction observe the painful progress which the courts, the Executive, and Negro citizens are making in obtaining proper suffrage, education, housing, and employment for Negroes. They infer that effective civil-rights legislation is not really so necessary, warning liberals not to conceive whatever legislation does get through...
Opponents of the reduction appear to have forgotten that the end of debate is not debate but action: the same Constitution which guards the legitimate rights of minorities grants to majorities the right to rule.
Job noted that a new Yugoslav constitution, which he expects to be adopted within the next two months, "reaffirms our stand and policy of non-alignment." He insisted that it is an "active" nonalignment, "not an escape from responsibility. We are not sitting on a fence milking both sides."
The new constitution, he said, is a further step toward "attaining the pinnacle of democracy by introducing self-management everywhere." It continues and expands the old system of having all significant policies of each factory determined by a council of the workers. Council elections are secret ballots, and some plants...