Word: federalists
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Mosteller said he taught probability and statistics to students all across the country during the 1960s on NBC's "Continental Classroom" television program. In collaboration with David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago, he also used statistical techniques to determine that James Madison wrote several of the Federalist Papers, whose authorship had been disputed, he said...
Funny, the laws that made it sedition to speak ill of the President and the Government contained no provision against flag desecration. Still, Federalist judges sitting at the time would have been happy to imprison any Jeffersonian Republican who abused the flag. Among the Americans the Federalists did put behind bars was the author of a placard that urged NO STAMP ACT, NO SEDITION AND NO ALIEN ACTS. And newspapers sternly denounced as "seditious" a group that burned not the flag, but the Alien and Sedition Acts...
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...
...Many people were against this not in principle, but because the conservative and libertarian students proposed it," says Sam J. Levy, who was a member of the group that proposed the amendment and also president of the 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...