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That, of course, is cutting it very fine, since war is both unpredictable and wasteful. The President gave no indication that he has hopes for a cheap victory or that he would foolishly yield to Communist demands. But implicit in all that he said was an unspoken hope that increased American military power, and the threat of more to come, would force the enemy to negotiate...
Unlike many constitutional controversies, the debate over crime and punishment involves the emotions and physical security of every American. City dwellers in particular, for whom parks and streets after dark bristle with potential danger, would argue that the safety of the innocent is at least as implicit in the Jeffersonian ideal of "equal and exact justice to all men" as fair treatment for the accused...
...proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." Implicit in the Monroe Doctrine was the threat that the U.S. would oppose any such European intervention with armed force...
...Implicit Approval. In appealing for a declaratory judgment, Zemel argued that the Cuban travel ban, laid down by the State Department in 1961 violates both Kent's due-process requirement and the First Amendment right of free speech. Equally basic, argued Zemel, the Constitution (Article 1) gives Congress sole authority to make laws. The 1926 Passport Act vaguely empowered the State Department to grant passports "under such rules as the President shall designate." But Congress has not specifically empowered the President to impose area restrictions in peacetime. Otherwise, said Zemel, the statute is an unconstitutional delegation of Congress...
While both judgments are somewhat subjective, Ford feels that "the ad hoc committees have been a wonderful thing for Harvard because they keep the departments on their toes." The system avoids the parochialism implicit in a permanent faculty committee on tenure, such as exists at Yale, for it insures that departments cannot blindly perpetuate a single tradition of scholarship...