Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjective of praise, not of opprobrium. And the monarch, for "our kingdom's safety," repeatedly invokes God's participation in doing battle when the "cause [is] just and [the] quarrel honorable." For good or ill, Henry's goal is that of so many present-day politicians: law 'n' order...
...document they approved is a model for law students everywhere on "just how bad a constitution can be," said Richard Christie, head of the law department of the University College of Rhodesia. In a bit of constitutional sleight-of-hand, it provides for a largely ceremonial head of state who is chosen by the Executive Council, or cabinet. But his duties include appointing the Executive Council, which conceivably will create a minor problem of who appoints whom first. The constitution also provides for a Senate with black representation but a permanent white majority, and a House of Assembly...
Unfettered Powers. Should anyone disagree with the arrangement, the constitution provides unfettered powers for the government to deal with dissent. Its new "Declaration of Rights" includes provisions for preventive detention and restriction, search and deprivation of property, and laws regulating the press. Though it also promises freedom of expression, assembly and association, as well as protection from slavery and inhuman treatment, the declaration leaves the government an all-inclusive out. No court will have the right "to inquire into or pronounce upon the validity of any law on the ground that it is inconsistent with the Declaration of Rights...
...kudos for Yale's President Kingman Brewster. Said Dickey, bestowing the LL.D.: "Never one to do things the easy way, you prepared for your avocation as a patrician sailor by being the eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant. As a Yale man, you prepared for the law by going to Harvard, then taught at Harvard Law School in preparation for the Yale presidency. As the editor of the Yale Daily News, you campaigned against the dress of Vassar girls, then married one and all but seduced Vassar itself...
...headed for the University of Michigan law school on a full tuition scholarship, having rejected similar offers from three other top law schools-Duke, Chicago and Harvard. He hopes to become a lawyer (and future politician) as fast as he became a college graduate. For one thing, he has a family speed record to defend. Next fall his younger brother James will enter Wittenberg-with 20 out of the required 36 credits. If he maintains Tom's pace, James will also graduate in one year, but at the age of 18, compared with...