Word: exclusionism
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They first came by the thousands to California-Gum San, land of the Golden Mountains-when the gold fields and railroads beckoned, and in smaller streams when the U.S. set up immigration quotas and California passed its racial exclusion laws in 1892. Despite the restrictions, so many Chinese have entered...
When confronted with vigorous agitation for the privilege of student representation on faculty committees, Dean Sizer recommended that students sit on the Library and the Lectures and Publications Committees. Some students were still dissatisfied with this arrangement. They wanted a say in curriculum changes, and therefore wanted to be seated...
Instead, representatives have justified the action as an extension of their constitutional right to expel members of the House. This extension seems unjustified. As one Law School professor has pointed out, exclusion only requires a majority vote and assumes a preliminary judgement by the electorate; expulsion requires two thirds and...
This view is supported by precedent in the history of the House. Rule 238 of Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of...
A confrontation might be eased if the Supreme Court simply chose to say that any exclusion based on constitutional qualifications would not be reviewable by the judiciary. The way would then be open for the House to find that Powell is not an inhabitant of New York State, or to...