Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of law and in law's terms, the question of repeated Communist violations of contract in the armistice agreement. With the facts established, the U.N. command sat down at Panmunjom and quietly announced that it meant to modernize its own forces, thus redress the legal balance...
...Court ought to take its stand between individual rights and the needs of national and individual security in the times of the Communist cold war. There was praise and there was criticism for the Supreme Court (see below), but the great fact was that the debate went on within legal framework in essentially legal terms. "The Communists declare that the court is an arm of the political system," a Texas law-school dean noted of the Supreme Court's decisions. "If that ever happens, justice under law is gone...
...replied: "Sir, I am building a temple." The lesson is simple: to Earl Warren the law is a temple and the Supreme Court a builder. And by last week the blueprints were ready, the mortar was flying, and the marble blocks were moving toward a new look in U.S. legal architecture...
Citation: "Skilled and creative in your employment of legal knowledge, sensitive arbiter of social conflicts, you speak for the finest tradition of Anglo-American...
...successfully three times by surgeons at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. (Use of an identical twin is necessary to avoid the risk of hostile antibodies developing in the recipient's system.) But in the case of the Masden boys, the problem is not only medical but legal. Unlike the earlier cases, the Masdens are minors. Argue the lawyers: not even the boys' mother could give legal consent to "an invasion" of Leonard's person for the sake of Leon...