Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Papadopoulos and his colleagues have enacted a new constitution and made other gestures toward a re-establishment of representative rule, the country remains under martial law. Furthermore, the junta shows no inclination to hold free elections any time soon.
Constitutional Government. Oklahoma also proposes to combat the "loneliness, frustration and lack of meaningful participation" that pervades many campuses by splitting its big campus (current enrollment: 15,500) into small congenial groups. Freshmen, who need more counseling and personal attention, would live in housing units holding 50 students, upperclassmen in...
2) Having the House decide the Presidential election would be one of those cataclysms that drives the Congress to action. In the same way that three assassinations and civil rights marches on the scale of Selma led to long-talked-about legislation, the buying-and-selling-votes catastrophe in the...
Heynes also faced pressure from the state legislature which would like to take control of the State university system from the regents. Though Heynes is barred by the present constitution from interfering with the universities, a new constitution is in the planning stages.
The public outery in the wake of the present Berkeley crisis may be large enough to permit the legislators to delegate more control over the universities to themselves through the new constitution.