Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed...
Back in 1913, in his pioneering work, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Beard argued that the Founding Fathers represented four groups of interests: "money, public securities, manufactures, and trade & shipping." "The Constitution," Beard said, "was essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities...
...months ago the Fulbright Resolution, pledging U.S. postwar cooperation, would have thrown the House into an uproar. Congressmen feared it as a bold proposal. Now it seemed to be a very mild little document, less specific even than the Republican foreign policy adopted at Mackinac (TIME, Sept. 20). This week it was set to slide through the House with a whoop...
...niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney chiefly for his fleet footwork and persuasive paws. As a period document, Johnny Come Lately bogs down neither in history nor documentation. Its historicity is chiefly an excuse for an unusual amount of pleasure in human beings, their relationships, the clothes they wore, the homes they lived...
Everything seemed shipshape. Michigan's broad-domed Senator Arthur Vandenberg arrived with a foreign-policy resolution in his pocket, a document marvelously vague, in which each word had been planed and sandpapered down to political harmlessness. Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into one typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises...