Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If nothing else, it should stimulate national pride and impress all readers with the intellectual integrity, foresight and fortitude of our forefather leaders, who produced the Declaration, the Constitution and a doctrine of high purpose to put our country onto the path to greatness, on which we now seem to...
"He's a statesman of a lost cause," said McCloskey. Within 50 years of America's independence, the Supreme Court had established the Constitution as the "supreme law of the land" and the federal courts as its highest interpreters. McCloskey cited the 1821 case of Cohens v. Virginia, in which...
Barnett's "interposition doctrine" is not new. It originated as far back as 1789, an the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions aimed at the Alien & Sedition Acts. The doctrine was based on the assumption that the Constitution is a compact among states who have retained sovereignty. Marshall overthrew that argument in...
Following the Harvard club's endorsement Richard H. Seidman, chairman of the constitution committee of the National Federation of College Young Democrats (NFCYD) circulated a memorandum saying the action violated the NFCYD By-laws and "the spirit of the Young Democrats," and all-told, was "in very bad taste."
Not that they refuse to share the wealth. Profit sharing, supervised by the states, has been part of the Mexican constitution ever since 1917. Moreover, the annual aguinaldos-a bonus of two months' pay at Christmastime-is almost a national tradition. What bothers businessmen about the new provision is...