Word: documentation
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...thousand dollars a word is a hefty price to pay for any document, but this one is special. Written in 1818 by the 75-year-old Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai Noah, one of America's first Zionists, the letter contains a stirring attack on anti-Semitism and all forms of religious bigotry...
...disclaimed by all while feeble, and practised by all when in power." After spirited bidding at Sotheby's in New York City, the browned, spotted piece of paper went to Ludwig Jesselson, 75, a collector of Judaica. The price: $396,000, the highest figure ever paid for a presidential document...
...AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, an often vague political document written nearly two centuries ago, invites controversy. Still, there are certain facets of the polity it sets up we thought had been settled long ago. That is until last week, when Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared that the Supreme Court of the United States was not the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution. In a speech at Tulane University, America's highest-ranking law enforcement official asserted that the Court's decisions were not the supreme law of the land. Only the particular parties involved in cases decided by the Court, he said...
...committed to every period and comma in the document, but I think the basic outline is very solid," said Faculty Council member Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies...
...final draft of the Philippines' new constitution was presented last week to President Corazon (Cory) Aquino at Malacanang Palace. "Democracy is safe with this constitution," she said after receiving two copies of the 59-page document, one in English, the other in Pilipino. The charter will be put to a nationwide plebiscite...