Word: documentable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike its predecessors, the thick document did not spark explosions of anger or snorts of derision as it landed on Capitol Hill last week. When Ronald Reagan submitted to Congress his eighth budget, a $1.09 trillion spending package for fiscal 1989, not even the Democrats pronounced it D.O.A., as they have in years past...
Ogletree noted "the conspicuous absence" of Black participation in the bicentennial celebration of the Constitution. He said his concerns reflected a speech by Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall last summer in which Marshall said he would not be celebrating, but carefully examining this "living document...
...special is to demonstrate that the Constitution is a "flexible document which has to be shaped by the people it's supposed to serve," said Melton...
...bringing in new voters, but they are people who have been specifically mobilized by a sense of mission, by the feeling that they must "take back" this country for God. The politicizing of the religious right has been going on for decades, as Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe document in their forthcoming book, Televangelism, Power, and Politics. The Robertson voters are first-timers for reasons that make it unlikely that they will be one-timers...
...challenge: if the students could find something "unfair" in the state constitution, Green would endeavor to have it changed. Little did he imagine that the young sleuths would track down a startling inequity. As 100 students pointed out last week in an appearance before an Arizona house committee, the document states that only a "male person" may occupy the offices of Governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general or superintendent of public instruction. The finding was all the more remarkable since Rose Mofford had taken office as acting Governor only one day earlier, following the impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham...