Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One Course. "The Constitution created a government dedicated to equal justice under law. The Fourteenth Amendment embodied and emphasised that ideal. State support of segregated schools through any arrangement, management, funds, or property cannot be squared with the Amendment's command that no state shall deny to any person...
As the incredible returns continued to pour in last week from the outer precincts of French power, the sweep of Charles de Gaulle's triumph increased. In Martinique in the Caribbean the ratio was 14-1 for De Gaulle. On the Pacific island of New Caledonia, 52-1. In...
Everyone but the Communists and a few chronic dissidents had voted yes for De Gaulle. Yet it also seemed clear that the voters of France and of the overseas territories-now known as the Community, like Britain's Commonwealth-had gone to the polls not so much to vote...
De Gaulle triumphed on his own conditions. It is doubtful if one voter in a thousand bothered to ponder the new constitution's 92 articles (see box). Even if they listened attentively to De Gaulle's oracular and stylishly ambiguous speeches, they got little hint of what the...
UNDER De Gaulle's new constitution, the President, who under the Fourth Republic was largely a figurehead, becomes in the Fifth the fountainhead of power.