Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the laws of the District of Columbia; the Taiwanese embassy in Washington becomes the Coordination Council for North American Affairs, an "instrumentality established by the people on Taiwan." Inscrutable though these new "instrumentalities" may appear, they will enable the U.S. and Taiwan to preserve all their previous economic, legal and cultural ties...
...against children. That group could not have accounted by itself for the almost uninterrupted decline in the U.S. birth rate in the 70s. It is very likely that the economics of child rearing has had much to do with the trend toward smaller families, which has been encouraged by legal abortions...
...legal debates are endless, but they only obscure the one clear conclusion that can be drawn from the drive for a convention--most American voters want to see a federal government cut on taxes and spending, and they're willing to go to the foolhardy length of writing their wishes into the Constitution to make themselves heard. Most likely, fears of constitutional crisis will not come to a test; Congress will either propose the amendment itself or, preferably, persuade voters it will take spending cuts seriously...
...calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where it belongs, not in legal briefs, but in the legislatures and polls...
John L. Mason, attorney for Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Inc., field a complaint Tuesday for the four residents alleging the city has not hired the additional 12 state sanitary code enforcers required by the November 30 ordinance...