Word: dissenters
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...marriage of convenience required Franklin to leave many of those famed Franklinian virtues--the aversion to tyranny, the commitment to tolerance--at home. It was his job to court an absolute monarchy on behalf of a country to which civil liberties, freedom of the press and the right to dissent were to be sacred. Nowhere is the majestic suppleness of his character on better display. It was his task as well to offer a gentle crash course on America, correcting French misconceptions...
...biblical proportions," says Scott Lively of the Pro-Family Law Center in Sacramento, Calif. "[As a result] I predict the already enormously powerful gay political lobby in our state will consolidate its power further, and that every item on its agenda is going to get pushed through." The dissenters on the high court, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, charged that the majority grounded its decision not in the Constitution or the law but in the climate of the times. By inventing a brand-new constitutional right, they were ignoring the right of citizens in a democracy to pass laws that...
...commerce ... among the several states" as the means to legitimize federal mandates on racial integration. To Rehnquist, this is a perversion of the Constitution, and he has been on a three-decade-long quest to rein in federal power. As early as 1975 he was arguing--in another lone dissent--that states could resist a mandate from Congress by asserting that the framers believed in much greater state sovereignty. And here he has made the most headway, getting a majority of Justices to agree with him that a variety of federal laws overstepped the limits of congressional power...
...under previous leaderships. This generated a flood of praise from around China, and the whispers of "tame puppet" that were floating around faded away. But the true litmus tests have yet to come. One such test will occur the next time leadership is tempted to use force to suppress dissent. Among post-Mao rulers, Deng Xiaoping stumbled in both 1979 (crushing the Democracy Wall movement) and 1989 (the Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another litmus test is the Party's relationship with the media. Now that public opinion has swung...
...control. This time, the cream of Hong Kong's chattering classes have been alienated by the maladroit way in which their criticisms have been handled. Bankers, lawyers, senior business figures, religious leaders, academics and teachers fear the legislation will give leadership the legal tools it needs to suppress dissent in Hong Kong as ruthlessly as it does on the mainland. Meanwhile, foreigners voicing concern, including the U.S. government and the European Union, have been portrayed by the Hong Kong government as misinformed dupes of local democrats. At a time when Tung badly needs to reassure the international community...