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...revoking a permit on the basis of a subjective judgment DeGuglielmo has denied Avatar's right to "due process of law," as established in the Fourteenth Amendment. He has also defied that freedom of the press guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The fault, however, is not wholly DeGuglielmo's. He has only demonstrated the undue policing power given to city officials by an anomalous ordinance which requires newspaper distributors to have a permit. The ordinance, which contradicts both constitutional and Massachusetts law, is illegal...
...allows each house to "be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members," explicitly enumerates these qualifications. Under Article I, section 2, a representative must be at least 25-years old, a citizen for seven years, and an inhabitant of the state he represents. The Fourteenth Amendment excludes those who have fought against the United States or given aid or comfort to her enemies...
...Douglas and Abe Fortas, however, in separate dissents from the five-to-four decision, pointed out that turning the election over to the legislature violates the Court's own "one man, one vote" principle. Georgia voters would not enjoy the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment if the candidate favored by the greater number could be defeated by the candidate of the lesser number...
Walter Kerr came in for the lion's share of last night's discussion, pro and con -- most of it con. "Mr. Kerr happens to be at this moment Louis the Fourteenth," explained Kopit, who joined his fellow panelists in reluctantly confessing Kerr to be the best of the New York daily reviewers...
...group of soc rel researchers is journeynig forth -- vicariously -- from the fourteenth floor of William James to find out just what makes London London, Paris Paris, and New York New York. Stanley Milgram, assistant professor of Social Psychology, and the four members of his junior tutorial will spend the semester combining, in Milgram's words, "a passion for scientific measurement with an exquisite perception" of the elements that make up a city's atmosphere...