Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the inhabitance requirement has always been loosely interpreted, Powell undoubtedly fulfills all of these conditions. The question then becomes whether the House may add its own requirements to those of the Founding Fathers. Justice Story, moreover, has written that "it would seem but fair reasoning, upon the plainest principles of interpretation, that when the Constitution established certain qualifications as necessary for office, it meant to exclude all others as prerequisites." Congress has nevertheless successfully added new requirements by statute, such as the Edmunds Act of 1882 excluding polygamists...
Last week the Supreme Court upheld the California decision. Speaking for a narrow, five-man majority, Justice Byron R. White declared that in its decision the California Supreme Court had not forbidden Californians either to repeal fair-housing laws or to enact laws making the state "neutral." All it did was to "reasonably" conclude that Section 26 affirmed discrimination as a state-guaranteed freedom. "We are dealing with a provision which does not just repeal an existing law forbidding racial discrimination," said White. "Section 26 was intended to authorize, and does authorize, racial discrimination in the housing market...
...soldier, the E63 has been used most effectively aboard a helicopter. Flying above the treetops at speeds as high as 100 m.p.h., helicopters equipped with People Sniffers have detected groups of men in jungle-covered "free bombing zones"-areas cleared of civilians where anything that moves is regarded as fair game. On the basis of E63 readings, artillery fire has been called in and flights of B-52s have been dispatched to saturate the suspicious area with bombs...
...wanted it to be low key, not full of chest-beating technology," says Terry Rankine, one of the Seven. "We took very much to heart the request of Expo officials that it should not be made into a trade fair. We didn't want exhibits to say that 'our ball bearings are better than theirs.' We wanted to show the craftsmanship, inventiveness and creativity of the American people...
...most pernicious provision in the House bill is the veto power it gives Congress over any national draft lottery, the Free and Impartial Random [FAIR] system proposed by the President. The Senate, despite some apprehensions about FAIR, made no attempt to hamstring the President; the conference committee should follow the Senate's version, and chuck out the veto. It is unlikely, of course, that both houses of Congress would veto the Presidentially sponsored FAIR system within the 60-day time limit set by the bill, even if the House version won out. But the threat of such a veto would...