Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document that has already changed the spiritual life of the church is the constitution On the Liturgy, which led to widespread introduction of vernacular languages in the Mass. Another constitution, On the Church, asserting that bishops collectively share ruling power over the church with the Pope, is the charter for what many theologians feel will be a slow, subtle but unstoppable process of democratization within the church. The decree On the Apostolate of the Laity gives greater freedom and responsibility to Catholic laymen...
...Michael Abram, has begun to serve the function--unique in Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...
...resentment at Daoud's dictatorial ways, and in 1963 Zahir Shah forced his cousin to retire. For the first time in Afghan history, a commoner, Mohammed Yusuf, was appointed Prime Minister; his main job was to oversee the drafting of a new constitution. What evolved is a document that brings the criminal code into the 20th century and forbids members of the royal family to serve in either the Cabinet or the 216-seat Wolesi Jirga (People's Council or Parliament). Though the King may veto laws, the Parliament can overrule him with a two-thirds majority...
...free salary a year, plus a residence and the right to import their cars without paying duty. Bishops get 3% of the income from all weddings, christenings and funerals in the churches in their dioceses, plus a handsome $1.33 for every marriage license, divorce decree and celibacy certificate (a document proving that a person is not married...
...envisioned a nation extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from the Great Lakes to northern Florida-Minnesota, and with it the stupendous Mesabi iron lode, were included by a cartographical accident. On Nov. 30, 1782, the preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety," and then subtly sank the needle: "The English, I just now learn, flatter themselves they have already divided us. I hope this little misunderstanding will therefore...