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...powerful national government was anathema to many of the delegates. The Articles of Confederation had promised that "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence." Indeed, when the delegates from tiny Delaware had presented their credentials on opening day, they announced that their state legislature had expressly forbidden them to accept any change in the system by which each state had one vote in Congress. Delegate George Read had asked the legislature to impose that restriction because, as he wrote to a colleague, "such is my jealousy of most of the larger States that I would trust nothing to their...
...Tehran, Hakim established the Button account. (The name Belly Button, Hakim said, was the result of a joke about North. He did not elaborate.) Hakim told the congressional committees that the $200,000 was a "death benefit" for North's wife and four children. Knowing that U.S. officials are forbidden by law to accept outside contributions, Hakim says he did not inform North of the account...
...first axiom of American justice, that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty. In a 6-3 decision last week, the court upheld the controversial 1984 Bail Reform Act, by which Congress authorized the "preventive detention" of some federal suspects. For many years federal judges were forbidden to deny bail in most cases, except when there was reason to believe that a defendant might flee before trial. The new law has permitted those judges to refuse bail to thousands of suspects, most of them accused of violent and drug-related crimes, who could be shown to pose a danger...
...reversing that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that pretrial detention is not an impermissible punishment forbidden by the Fifth Amendment, because it is not intended as punishment at all. Rather, it was designed by Congress as a "regulatory" act, with the legitimate Government goal of public safety. "The mere fact that a person is detained does not inexorably lead to the conclusion that the government has imposed punishment," Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority...
...Underlying the dispute over Boland's technicalities is a far more sweeping provision. Article I of the Constitution obliges the President to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." At the very least, that would seem to have required Reagan to launch a careful study of what was forbidden by Congress under the Boland amendment and to insist that his aides abide by the results. So far there is no evidence that any such review was ever undertaken...