Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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If Adenauer is elected to the Presidency--and it seems certain that he will be, for the President is elected by a Convention in which his Christian Democratic Union will have a majority--there may also be some significant, though unwritten constitutional changes in the Bonn Republic. Adenauer has said...
-Fifth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
Neither case involved double jeopardy under the Constitution, ruled the majority in both decisions (5-4, 6-3). Central finding: the Constitution's Bill of Rights -including the "double jeopardy" Fifth Amendment-is meant to be binding on the Federal Government only; similar U.S. constitutional rights apply to the...
Stroessner thought the power balance through, and on the day that Congress reconvened last week, he put on a civilian suit, rode in an open blue convertible escorted by plumed lancers down troop-lined streets to the Congress building, to make his yearly state-of-the-nation speech. There he...
¶ Spelled out his theory of law: "We shall be respectful of the law, but of the revolutionary law; respectful of right, but of revolutionary right-not of the old right, but the new right that we are going to make. For old law, no respect; for new law, respect...