Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keyes ran unsuccessfully for the Senate against Democrats in Maryland. His second attempt was derailed in part from the disclosure that Keyes had paid himself $8,500 per month from campaign contributions. The payments were legal, but apparently unprecedented in the state's political history, and Keyes had not immediately disclosed them...
...continue to think that our legal system is the most marvelous instrument to interpret the constitution, which says that all men--which I interpret to mean women as well--are created equal," she says...
...case of the three other students, Davis found doubt that they intended to make Cambridge their legal residence...
While Governor William F. Weld '66 ordered the state to recognize same-sex marriages in other states earlier this year, same-sex marriage is not legal in Massachusetts. Religious blessing or commitment ceremonies of the type requested by the same-sex couple, which are not subject to government regulation, are already performed in many area churches...
...secrecy rules for the purpose of launching a smear campaign against the First Lady. Responding to a New York Times Magazine article in which unnamed Whitewater prosecutors commented on the investigation, Kendall wrote to Starr that the prosecutor's office engaged in a public relations attack inconsistent with its legal responsibilities. "The comments of you and persons in your office directly and indirectly quoted in the magazine article flout all these obligations," he said. "Grand jury secrecy rules are aimed at preventing precisely this kind of leak-and-smear damage." The Times article quoted several anonymous prosecutors as saying that...