Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 24, the convention named a five-man Committee of Detail to sort everything out and draft a coherent summary of all the votes. It gave the committee nine days to accomplish this, and then adjourned. Washington went fishing for trout. When the committee duly presented its report, the newly returned delegates began wrangling about how, if they ever got a constitution finished, it should be ratified and put into effect...
...were strong-government advocates, and that one of them was Madison. The actual writer was Gouverneur Morris, a one-legged but rather rakish Philadelphian who boasted what he liked to consider a muscular prose style. And prose styles do have an effect. The convention had given the committee a draft that began: "We the undersigned delegates of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay" and so on. Morris rewrote that so it began: "We, the People of the United States...
...military coup. Three-quarters of the world's constitutions have been completely rewritten since they were first adopted, making America's fidelity to a single charter highly unusual. Some experts contend that frequent constitutional changes can be healthy. Says Albert Blaustein, a Rutgers University law professor who has helped draft six foreign charters: "Jefferson concluded that every 20 years the new generation should have its own constitution to meet current needs. That might not be a good idea for the U.S., but it's really not a bad idea for other countries...
Dawn Steel, president of production at Paramount, recalls that Mamet's first draft was an "outline, very sparse." How sparse? Capone was hardly in it. To flesh out Mamet's bare-bones script, Steel and her boss Ned Tanen wanted De Palma. "In the past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from...
They do indeed. Given the political popularity of minority set-asides, however, few in Washington seem to have the heart to examine the actual operation of the programs too closely. The last serious attempt to question the effects of special treatment for minority contractors was a controversial 1986 draft report prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that charged that "the growth of set-asides has primarily benefited wealthier minority-group members, arguably the ones least in need of Government assistance." The report, which also assailed corruption in the programs, attracted a gale of criticism, was disowned...