Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word appeared in press or radio, and his every move in Lisbon was under police surveillance. Soares himself had little to say, except: "I am planning now to resume fully my professional and political activities, but legally. You know my position: I have always worked within the law...
Only in 1967 did Tennessee's legislature repeal its anti-evolution law. And in two other states-Arkansas and Mississippi-similar statutes remain in effect...
They did, that is, until last week. Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Arkansas law prohibiting public school teaching of "the theory that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals" is clearly unconstitutional. That ruling should put an end to the issue in Mississippi as well...
Freedom of Speech. The victory was won by Mrs. Jon O. Epperson, a onetime biology teacher at Little Rock's Central High School* now living with her husband and baby son in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Despite the law, textbooks teaching evolutionary theory have been commonly used in Arkansas schools, and no teacher has been prosecuted. But in 1966 Mrs. Epperson went to court contending that the use of the books made her a lawbreaker. The statute called for punishment by dismissal and a fine of up to $500. That, argued Mrs. Epperson, inhibited her freedom of speech...
...Arkansas lower court agreed with the biology teacher. But the state's Supreme Court reversed that ruling in 1967, holding that the law was a "valid exercise of the state's power to specify the curriculum in its public schools." In last week's decision, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided entirely the issues of states' rights and freedom of speech. Since the Arkansas statute allowed the teaching of only the Biblical version of man's beginnings, ruled the court, it was clearly part of an "establishment of religion" by the state. The decision was written...