Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his career as teacher and geologist, Mather estimates he has taken oaths of allegiance to the Constitution "at least 50 times." His objection to the Teachers Oath centered around the need for a professor, presumably independent of the government, to take it. With such an oath, he stated, "Education...
He signed the oath, but attached a three-paragraph proviso, thus making the entire oath invalid. At the same time, Mather issued another statement, calling the oath "completely antagonistic to the spirit which breathes through the Constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." (He smilingly recalls, however...
Duroselle's main fear for the infant Fifth Constitution was, in fact, the death of de Gaulle. The prime minister is so strong under the present governmental system, he said, that if the president was weaker than de Gaulle, there could be a conflict between the two executives.
To the 780 assembled newsmen De Gaulle began with a 15-minute "preliminary statement," made without notes, that turned out to be almost word for word like a mimeographed summary handed to the newsmen as they came in. In the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, the general...
Birrell was outraged about the U.S. effort to bring him home. "Some American authorities will try to get Brazilians to violate their own constitution and laws. Just to get at me. That's not diplomatic. Some day, I'll go back home. I certainly won't let...