Word: governed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hines said the First Amendment defends individuals against discipline or censorship by the government, which has been interpreted in previous cases to apply to public universities. However, she said the Bill of Rights does not govern similar action within private institutions like BU or Harvard...
...other effect the CBS hubbub had, noted an ABC vice president, it "gave the impression of a shop being out of control." In this rival view, a new problem began to loom for Wyman and his lieutenants: "What was at stake here was the perception of the ability to govern." The attacks on Wyman's authority, in other words, were hurting, particularly as they gathered media attention...
...closing the decision-making process of the University from students, faculty and employees--the leaders of the Harvard community--fail to govern properly. Nonetheless, every member of the community has an important responsibility to actively participate in our little society whenever...
More generally, the majority insisted that the Supreme Court should display "great resistance" against any attempt "to discover new fundamental rights" not enumerated in the Constitution. "Otherwise," wrote White, "the judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority." For years conservatives have attacked judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices, for reading their own moral and political views into the Constitution. White's opinion was an unusually explicit acknowledgment of that criticism by a Justice, and it may portend greater deference by the court to the actions of elected officials...
...Popes of Rome, some of them loved, some feared, some venerated, some murdered. One of the proudest and most powerful, Innocent III (1198-1216), started calling himself the Vicar of Christ because he said he was "set midway between God and man" and given "the whole world to govern...