Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNDER the U.S. Constitution, the President appoints Government officials "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate " In the case of Cabinet members, the Senate has almost always confirmed nominations. It may yet remain for Lewis L. Strauss, up for Secretary of Commerce, to be the first Cabinet...
Last month Premier Eyskens was abruptly summoned to the palace and told that Leopold's youngest son in the royal line, Albert, 25, was going to marry Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 21, one of the prettiest of a clutch of pretty Italian princesses. Everybody thought the girl a catch...
Last week, when the new National Assembly met to consider its rules, the ghost of the Fourth Republic rose against the Fifth. The new Fifth's constitution permits parliamentary votes only on formal votes of censure, on bills or on declarations made by the government. In the guise of...
His speech won the standing applause of a majority of the Assembly. Later, to newsmen, Premier Debre explained his position in more earthy language: "Whatever people may say or think, there is a parliamentary regime in France. The constitution provides a number of ways a government may be turned out...
In the boldest of all its colonial experiments, Britain has conferred autonomy on the famed imperial base of Singapore. The island is as strategically important as ever for Britain's Southeast Asia trade. It is essential to defense of Britain's still far-flung Eastern outposts. Nonetheless, the...