Word: constitutionalizing
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Smith's agreement with the country's moderate black leaders-Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Chief Jeremiah Chirau and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-envisions a transitional period of evolution toward majority rule during which whites (who number about 264,000 in Rhodesia's population of 7 million) would be...
Morris and Burns argue that there has been a dearth of constitutional study over the past two decades. As a result, the nation had to pick "piecemeal" through the Constitution during Viet Nam and Watergate while debating issues like impeachment and executive privilege.
Nine-year study focuses on the Constitution's Bicentennial
The two professors, former presidents of the American Historical Association (Morris) and the American Political Science Association (Burns), decided to redress the historical slight. They dreamed up Project 87 to celebrate America's next Bicentennial, that of the Constitution's adoption, with a cerebral, nine-year program sponsored...
The three-phase project, under the direction of Donald Robinson, a Smith College political scientist, will focus initially on research into the Constitution and its evolution. Among possible topics: