Word: laws
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Which high court of law has gone over the heads of the President and the Congress and decided that the U.S. is officially at war in Viet Nam? See THE LAW, What...
Loosening Loyalties. The phenomenon of the unhappy voter can be exaggerated. The genuinely disenchanted and disaffected are probably a minority, and a fragmented one at that. Vast numbers of Americans, by contrast, see more merit in pleas for law and order than in cries for change. They would be happier with a candidate who symbolizes stability and the known than one who stands for radical change and the unknown. But it is a minority, and particularly a progressive, vocal minority, that often sets the tone of the times. The articulate Americans who are seeking new paths and new personalities have...
...decade, the curriculum immense and open-ended. With his power over nuclear war or peace, the American President can do no less than strive to be the world's most rational man; a philosophy degree might help, at least a little. Surely he also needs degrees in law, economics, political science and military strategy, to say nothing of personnel management...
...law varies for different offices, but California requires a Governor to face a special election if petitioners collect signatures amounting to at least 12% of the last gubernatorial vote. On the ballot, alternate candidates are offered in case the official is turned out. In California, such efforts have always failed before. Since the tactic was first applied statewide in 1911,* petitions have been circulated against three Governors, but never were enough signatures collected. Political experts doubt that this drive against Reagan will have much better luck. Even so, the Governor has conceded that the effort alone could be "embarrassing...
...midnight snack of lamb chops among his five daily meals, he was busy correcting the proofs of his latest work-on St. Thomas Aquinas, who, says Father Damien, also believed that individual conscience, in individual circumstance, could and must override other rules in order to refer to the unwritten law...