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...sound moral decisions." James Lenehan, chairman of a Connecticut Right to Life committee, wondered "how the Supreme Court can at one time rule against capital punishment and then allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said that although he may have a beating heart and a functioning brain and be biologically human, the black man was not a legal person." More mildly, Bishop William Cannon of the United Methodist Church warned: "If this leads to promiscuity and to taking the creation...
After eating a boiled chicken dinner one evening high in the mine-area mountains, Castro summoned the cook from the kitchen. What, he wanted to know, was the boiling point of water? One hun dred twenty degrees centigrade, answered the cook. "No," snapped Fidel...
Although it is generally considered part of the Midwest. Missouri is actually a southern state. Admitted as a slave state, it was the home of Dred Scott--whether Dred wanted it to be or not. Although it did not officially secede from the Union during the Civil War, more than 30,000 Missourians fought for the Confederacy, as did organized bands of rural guerillas; its governor established a pro-Confederate government in exile; and martial law had to be imposed to keep the state under Union control. As recently as ten years ago, many of the smaller towns and parts...
Scholars have lambasted court rulings that go back as far as the seminal Marbury v. Madison decision (1803), which asserted the court's power to overturn congressional legislation. They gasp at the Dred Scott case (1857), which denied that a Negro could be a U.S. citizen. They are still apoplectic over Koreinatsu v. U.S. (1944), complaining of its shabby justification for interning 70,000 Japanese-American citizens. Just as they winced throughout the Warren years, they are beginning to look askance at the Burger era. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland: "We have no evidence yet that...
...found such a spirit harder and harder to main tain as the years went by. At 30, he was old-looking and exhausted. Thinking that marriage would settle him down, as well as pay his debts, he wed a Mos cow beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges D'Anthes...