Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used the occasion to set down the legal principles that are the keynote of his conduct in the Little Rock crisis, and that would apply to integration crises to come. Reading from a paper that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must...
...Minister Robert Menzies observed recently: "Perhaps we do not always understand that 'the rule of law' and 'the rule of Parliament' can be separately stated in words but are not easily separated in fact. Self-government is not only a political conception. It is a legal conception. In short, I don't believe there can be any form of parliamentary self-government without a recognition of the rule...
...small hut on a dry plain near the Adriatic, seventy men are working feverishly to prove to the world that they are the legal government of their republic. On a mountain near the plain near the Adriatic, another hundred men insist they are the true, Communist government for the same republic. Instead of missiles the antagonists are hurling insults, but for all else, San Marino today is a microcosm of the world...
...though the association has established a headquarters in Central Square and are attempting to campaign vigorously in these areas, the candidates whom they have chosen to endorse from these sections are not of the high caliber of CCA-endorsed Councilor DeGuglielmo, Shaplin, and Mrs. Ogden. Many lack civic and legal experience; one city councilor candidate is venturing into city affairs for the first time this fall...
Pompeo also said that the University has had its architects and lawyers at work on both details of construction and the legal problems involved in purchasing "air space...