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Stewart also rejected the argument that restrictions on abortion force women to observe the doctrines of particular religious faiths. Said he, with a touch of casuistry: "That the Judaeo-Christian religions oppose stealing does not mean that a state or the Federal Government may not . . . enact laws prohibiting larceny." The court majority, Stewart emphasized, was not declaring the Hyde Amendment to be wise social policy-if it did, "not every Justice who has subscribed to the judgment of the court today could have done so"-but only that Congress did not violate the Constitution by enacting...
...part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without the due process of law." While the Executive Branch has the right to deny U.S. citizens the use of passports to travel to certain countries, the court said in 1967, only Congress can enact criminal laws penalizing Americans who decide to go to such countries anyway. Congress had repeatedly refused...
...national solidarity" in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, draft registration is a part of Carter's dangerously confrontational stance of reviving the cold war. And as a part of the Carter "doctrine" of military intervention in the Persian Gulf, draft registration represents Carter's failure to enact a sound program of energy independence...
While the committee's student members predicted that administrators would never enact appropriate policies, President Bok formed yet another committee: this one to look into setting up a campus center for Third World students...
Among the changes Wells will enact are a drastic reduction in the number of students admitted to the program, which would allow closer student-faculty relationships and the lowering of certain financial barriers to program entrance...