Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union...
A graduate of Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, once France's school for diplomats, the new King has never been the easygoing sort his father was. Something of a Puritan who lives a simple life with his one wife, he is a fervent antiCommunist, and is regarded...
Of course, it is not democracy. Critics think Ayub is moving too slowly at reforming Pakistan's legal system and devising a constitution (answers Ayub: "I am not one of those clever chaps. I like to know exactly what I am doing before I do it"). He agrees that...
Bozell, speaking in rebuttal, called Howe's statements on civil rights "sophistry." He charged that the content of Howe's speech amounted to "an assertion that the academic community possesses special privileges." The only question at stake, Bozell declared, is "whether the public has the prerogative to determine how its...
Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Ralph McGill: "It is a melancholy business, and it is the more so because it is a reflection on all of us. That so many millions hang on the results of the quizzes, in which sterile parrot knowledge was put to artificial use, was...