Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hasty, hysterical legislation only promises to leave the law-abiding American more exposed to the armed criminal and addict. We already have plenty of laws on the books; laws do not automatically prevent crimes. Trained gun owners are the answer to the gun problem...
...your Essay "Politics and Assassination" [June 14], you make the statement: "No French President has been murdered since 1932." De Gaulle has survived some six or eight murder attempts. The French are not law abiding, merely lousy shots...
...accounting, the Warren court has been the most influential since the Marshall court (1801-35) established the judiciary as the true third branch of the federal system and, with its decisions, laid the legal groundwork for a strong central government in the U.S. Yet, as Fred Rodell, the Yale Law School's Supreme Court specialist, points out, "John Marshall had 34 years to do what he did. Warren did his fantastic work in only 15. The Warren years have been the most productive and exciting the court has ever...
...within the unemotional confines of the legal profession, the Warren court has often been attacked. Usually the line is drawn between two factions. There are those who, like the late Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view, complains...
Lonely Dissenter. Critics also charge sloppy legal draftsmanship in many decisions that have not so much outraged as confused. The Justices, notes Yale Scholar Alexander Bickel, have yet to come up with a workable definition of obscenity. The decisions curbing police abuses have been almost as murky, says Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. "After Escobedo," he quips, "you need Miranda, and after Miranda, we will need maybe twelve more decisions...