Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luckily, some folks have come up with other solutions. After 10 or more years in which New Jersey refused to enact a bottle bill, Governor Kean finally declared the mandatory recycling program. Unfortunately, the plan has met organized resistance in suburbia. Suburbanites are protesting having to lug their bottles all the way to the recycling center--Ohmigod!--and refuse to recycle until they get doorstep pickup...
...told, the chances are virtually nil that the infringements upon liberty they sought to combat would return if a Bork-inspired court overturned them. America has changed, the argument goes, and even if, say, the abortion issue were thrown back to the states, few would re-enact the draconian antiabortion statutes of the past. And, surely, no state would ban contraceptives, as Connecticut sought to do even for married couples...
...press. "The Constitution," he said, "is not a self-executing document . . . If you went back to the original understanding of our ancestors, back in the early years of the 19th century, you would find that their understanding of this clause and the Constitution in their judgment allowed them to enact the Alien and Sedition laws. And if those laws were still on the books, Richard Nixon would still be President of the U.S. and Spiro Agnew would still be Vice President, and all of you people would probably be in prison...
...sense, then, our monarchs are in fact our subjects, hostage to the dreams we wish them to enact. Axel, the wan hero dreamed up by the French symbolist Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, famously suggested that he and his fellow aristocrats leave the messy business of living to their servants; these days, we would just as soon leave it to our monarchs. We demand of them, moreover, a double role: they must be godlike mortals, fallible gods. Upon peering into their closets, we wish not only to marvel at the gowns but also to revel in the skeletons that hang...
...Hart wanted so much to create a new America, to enact a new vision, why ^ did he roll grenades under his own tent flaps? There is something in his Arctic eyes, his rhetoric, that gives a chill...