Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For the most part, Khomeini fielded the questions with aplomb, calmly denying many of the charges raised in the West against his rule. He denied that leftists played a major role in the revolution "None of them fought or suffered. If anything, they took advantage of the people who fought...
As in the last deal of a high-stakes poker game, the London talks on Zimbabwe Rhodesia finished their fifth week with the chips piled high and the hole cards down. But the players left the table with the cards unturned as British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, chairman of the...
Having weathered the storm within his own party, Carrington held firm when Nkomo and Mugabe insisted that they still could not agree on a constitution. He offered no further compromise, beyond the suggestion that Britain and other Western governments, certainly including the U.S., would be willing to help bear the...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted the three defendants a new trial on March 8, 1979 because the prosecution had violated the Commonwealth constitution by using its privilege of pre-emptory challenge to prevent jurors from serving solely on the basis of race. Mundy eliminated 13 black jurors in the...
The leftists' aim was to change three key features of the party's constitution: 1) the procedure for drafting the party manifesto, an electoral document that is considered far more binding than U.S. party platforms; 2) the degree of control that the "constituency parties," or local committees, exercise...