Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lippmann argued that it was the function of the Executive branch to enforce the law and ferret out crime. He concluded: "McCarthyism is fundamentally unconstitutional in spirit and in practice...
...American Government cannot be made to work if its fundamental principle [of separate branches] is flagrantly and systematically violated. It is systematically and flagrantly violated if the Legislature takes upon itself the law-enforcing function of the Executive...
...McCarthy has encouraged-violations of law and loyalty on the part of officers and employees of the Executive branch. It has no right to set up a network of spies in the Executive branch, demoralizing it and creating a situation where the Secretary of the Army, for example, cannot function except as a Senator pleases. First the spies produce what they consider evidence. Then they produce doctored evidence. Next they may well produce purely fabricated evidence. And even the investigating Senators will in the end be victimized by the unconstitutional and un-American system they have created...
...other courses like Science 1-2 which flunked almost a third of the present freshman class at mid-years. The belief is that through such courses Amherst men will be best able to comprehend intelligently their present complex society and will best be able to understand how their specific function as doctors, lawyers or loafers fit into the pattern of society...
...Mexican history in his spare time, but, through the institute, he has done more to make it. Says he: "It is false and niggardly to believe that because we are a modest country our hospitals must be sordid and our patients must lack essentials. Yes, modern hospitals can function in Mexico...