Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Club Without Rules. In legal terms the Commonwealth simply represents "the lowest common denominator of consent." It has no constitution or common law applicable to all members; none is pledged to come to the defense of any of the others. There are no obligations or set meetings, no voting procedures or joint policies, and no stated method of .applying for admittance or of being rejected...
...Meaning of Nyet. As they gloomily dispersed, Western diplomats found consolation in the unity that they had shown at Geneva and in the fact that they had made no substantial concessions to Moscow. This claim, as far as it went, was true: the Western powers had not compromised their legal or physical position in West Berlin, and though they had been shouldered dangerously close to de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, they had clung to their refusal to grant formal diplomatic recognition to the East Germans. But none of this altered the fact that as the weeks went...
...herself, was in Tokyo seeing the Prime Minister. But though pleased that "in no nation in the world has the birth rate been cut so drastically in such a short time," she was distressed by the fact that few parents used contraceptives, instead relied on abortions, which are now legal and cost $2.78 if the mother can show that otherwise her health might be harmed, or that "unbearable" economic hardship might result. Margaret Sanger argued that too frequent abortions are also injurious to health, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi agreed. In the past year alone, there have been...
...courts ever since, defending themselves against charges of violating the state's compulsory school-attendance law. Fortnight ago the case came up before Municipal Judge Searle Sandeen of Stillwater, who listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially...
...last resort, they may send Tommy to a private school in St. Paul 25 miles away, but never back to public school ("It would set him back ten years"). Though their rebellion has cost them $1,000 so far, the Krals aim to establish their rights in a legal battle straight to the top. "We may have to mortgage our home," says Mary Krai. "But if it takes every penny, we will fight...