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...church that flatly forbids remarriage to anyone who has previously had a valid Christian marriage. Roman Catholicism still teaches that once consummated, a marriage between two baptized Christians is a sacrament: it creates an indissoluble bond breakable only by death. The church has taught that Jesus' dictum "What God has joined together, let not man put asunder" means that men not only should not, but cannot break that sacramental bond. In recent years, however, Catholic theologians, psychologists and scripture scholars have begun to question whether Jesus meant that marriage is in fact indissoluble or only that it should...
...power to decide the case. Chief Justice Warren Burger twice cited the 1803 observation of Chief Justice John Marshall that "it is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is." But Stanford's Gunther argued that the use of the Marshall dictum was misleadingly broad; every constitutional issue, he said, is not automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says no more than 'the President cannot assert that he is the law, because...
Robert Moses was born in 1888 of a wealthy upper-class New York Jewish family. His maternal grandmother Rosalie lived her life according to a simple dictum eventually passed along to Robert: "I won't take no for an answer...
...became more radical than he realized or wanted to be. In extending the common piety about freedom of speech to freedom of action, he committed an act of intellectual subversion for which the 20th century has paid with the impossible drunken dream of total freedom. Lord Acton's dictum -power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely-we have learned all too well. It is time, Professor Himmelfarb cautions, that we pay equal attention to another law: liberty too can corrupt, and absolute liberty can corrupt absolutely...
...same time, politics has been frequently contaminated by the law of celebrity. It works two ways. According to Andy Warhol's dictum that "in the future, everybody will be famous for at least 15 minutes," overexposure or premature adulation tends to burn up talent too quickly; the public becomes bored. There may also be a deeper 20th century Western instinct that anyone or anything believed in too long may turn the believer into a fanatic. Despite a real desire now for some public inspiration from leaders, there is also a wariness and skepticism about it. Simultaneously, press and television journalists