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Supporters of the amendment denied racist motives, and claimed that many students opposed the amendment--which lost by a margin of 40 percent--because it was associated with the relatively conservative Federalist Society...
...impossible or meaningless and that the attempt to get it inevitably leads to defeatism and illegitimate justifications of the status quo--are deeply pernicious, and have to be combatted in legal education. It is very bad to indoctrinate students with these attitudes. --from a symposium at the 1984 Federalist Society Meeting, printed in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring...
...third-year law student, Paul Cellupica,president of the Harvard Federalist Society, aconservative student group at the Law School, saidthat Bok's decision would settle the turmoil oncampus...
Amidst chocolate chips, apple cider and Samuel Adams beer, about five students each week meet with Mather House Tutor Richard John '81 to debate Constitutional issues and Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments...
...rights, then, would simply grant rights to the people which they already possessed. It would "contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted," Hamilton wrote, harping on the irony of the situation. Unfortunately, such double protection might do more harm than good, as Hamilton pointed out in The Federalist #84. "Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" he wrote. Such a declaration could only afford overzealous rulers "a colorable pretext to claim more [powers] than were granted...