Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With regard to suppression of Protestantism in Spain, one needs only to view the legal imposition of Protestant beliefs in this country through Prohibition and the blue laws to realize that Protestants lack only the power, and not the desire, to do likewise...
...charter said Nixon; the International Court of Justice is already established at The Hague and needs only to be used to be effective. "It would be foolish to suppose that litigation before the court is the answer to all the world's problems," but the areas of possible legal settlement of disputes can and should be widened...
Eastland began baiting Stewart on the legal reasoning in 1954's keystone Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. Replied Potter Stewart evenly: "I didn't come here today to criticize the institution of the Supreme Court or to do any harm to it ... I never so far as I know decided a case on any basis other than applying the law as I understand it to the facts ... In many cases the law is not easy to find. Certainly, in many cases before the Supreme Court of the U.S. If they were easy cases, they would...
Taking a Hint. Most of the 62 Christian Democrats who went to Bonn's Palais Schaumburg that cold and rainy morning expected a routine session with the Chancellor. Clutching a copy of the federal republic's Basic Law, Adenauer lectured, instead, for 45 minutes on the legal and moral position of the presidential office. Some of the politicians got Adenauer's hint and asked the Chancellor directly...
Most of PBH's policy will receive legal enforcement if Governor Foster Furcolo signs House Bill 1209, passed by the legislature last Wednesday. Scheduled to take effect 90 days after Furcolo signs it, the bill would outlaw discrimination in apartment buildings and rooming houses containing three or more rental units...