Word: demos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." So, according to tradition, President Andrew Jackson declared his displeasure at the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Worcester v. Georgia in 1832.* Last week, in the face of similar intransigence on the part of Demo-Christian Premier Antonio Segni and his government, peppery, 78-year-old Enrico de Nicola, president of Italy's fledgling Constitutional Court, struck back with an effectiveness that would have won a smile of approval from stern old John Marshall...
Almost from the day of its adoption, the provision in Italy's 1948 constitution calling for establishment of a court similar to the U.S. Supreme Court has been unpopular with the nation's Demo-Christian rulers. Reason: the court would obviously scrap many of Italy's 708 "public security" laws, which the government regards as its chief bulwark against the internal Communist threat but which are for the most part Mussolini's handiwork. Many of the laws clearly violate the civil liberties guaranteed by the 1948 constitution...
Eight-Year Stall. Unwilling to see these arbitrary policy powers ruled illegal, successive Demo-Christian governments managed for eight years to stall all moves toward establishment of the Constitutional Court. When the court finally came into existence, the government's fears were soon realized. In its first decision (TIME, June 25), the court unanimously declared unconstitutional Article 113 of the public security laws, which requires police permit for signs and posters. Then, in rapid order, the court struck down several other powers dear to the Italian police, among them confino (the power to banish citizens to remote areas without...
...district of Palermo known as Abbot's Villa, few citizens were more warmly respected than heavy-jawed Antonino Cottone. A onetime butcher who prospered mightily during the U.S. occupation of Sicily, Nino Cottone was respected partly for his wealth and partly for his excellent connections in the Demo-Christian Party. But the foundation of Nino's respectability was the fact that he was boss of the "Mafia of the Gardens"-the section of the world-famous Sicilian criminal syndicate that "protects" Palermo's fruit marketmen and citrus growers...
...Vatican officials discovered a new racket flourishing under the noses of the Swiss Guards: forged tickets to papal audiences. Normally issued free by the chief chamberlain, the forged tickets omitted the stamped-on word Gratis, were sold for a pretty tourist penny. Commented the official Demo-Christian newspaper Il Popolo: "This activity is more than illegal. It is ignoble...