Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judges are quick to assert that they are simply enforcing the laws and the Constitution. "Judges, unlike Presidents, Congressmen and lawyers, cannot generate their own business," says Federal Judge Prentice Marshall, who halted discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in the Chicago police department despite Mayor Richard Daley's vow to...
The Student Assembly was formed as a response to the inadequacies of the student-faculty committees. About 25 students met during the 1977-78 school year and finally drafted a constitution that was ratified by a majority of students in the spring.
Nyerere acknowledged that certain white minority rights should be guaranteed; but he also called for drastic revisions in the seven-month-old constitution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, which gives whites a disproportionate share of seats in the legislature and effective control of the armed forces, police, civil service and judiciary for...
A referendum [should be held] that would allow them to choose between a constitutional monarchy and a republic-not an Islamic republic, but a republic as defined by the present constitution.
Bakhtiar reappeared just three days before Iranians began electing the 73 members of a constituent assembly who are to approve a new constitution that Khomeini and others have drawn up as the blueprint for an Islamic republic. He said he welcomed the boycott of the election by such groups as...