Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable involvement of its military strength and influence in the everyday life of the free world, the U.S. has long sought to define a legal relationship between the rights of American servicemen stationed abroad and the inherent rights of allied nations. The U.S.'s principal instrument: a worldwide network of more than 40 "status-of-forces agreements" designed to legalize the status of 700,000 U.S. servicemen in friendly countries. The status-of-forces agreements-roughly granting to U.S. military courts the right to try G.I.s for on-duty offenses, granting to the host country jurisdiction over off-duty...
...Administration's law foundation for the status-of-forces agreements. Paraphrasing Marshall, the court said: "A sovereign nation has exclusive jurisdiction to punish offenses against its laws committed within its borders unless it expressly or impliedly consents to surrender its jurisdiction." Marshall, C.J., stated this as a legal absolute...
...argument now somewhat beside the point, because the court held that the decision was legal under the Constitution, also stated in the recent Covert-Smith case that it, too, holds the Constitution superior to treaty...
...lawyer and a comparatively moderate Southerner. Virginia's Attorney General J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr. recognizes that the Old Dominion's posture of "massive resistance" to integration has a limited legal future. But as an astute politician hopefully headed for the governor's chair, Lindsay Almond, 59, recognizes something else as well. Massive resistance is the brain child of apple-growing, economy-minded U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, and no Virginian has won statewide office in a quarter-century without Harry Byrd's blessing...
Professor Fay-Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago, controversial witness the Scopes' "Monkey Trial," told a Summer School audience last week that the significance of the famous Tennessee legal battle went far beyond the confines of the state...