Word: legalism
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...given fake money and throughout the night, individuals pay fellow dancegoers to do certain things...that may or may not verge on the inappropriate. At the end of the evening, the dancegoers with the most money win prizes. Tickets are $7, but drinks are free (if you're legal...
...large piece of legislation that affects millions of lives is never without controversy. The Civil Rights Act resulted in brawls on the Senate floor and death threats against a number of Senators, including Robert F. Kennedy. The 1965 creation of Medicare and Medicaid tied up courts for decades with legal challenges from states. And Republicans called for the repeal of Social Security from its inception in 1935 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt until Dwight D. Eisenhower's declaration of a cease-fire in the 1950s...
...think they should learn what’s out there and get involved in the struggle for marriage equality, because what we need is to confront these issues with good arguments and clear legal and social thinking. So who better than undergraduates at Harvard to supply that...
...think the issues about public sex were hard because, first of all, very little good legal analysis has been devoted to them. People just don’t talk about that very much. I didn’t want to scare my audience away by telling them “all this entails accepting sex clubs.” But in the end I do that because I think that’s what accepting the right of sexual choice entails...
Tushnet clerked for Thurgood Marshall, the last Justice who was a former Solicitor General, and said that Marshall’s previous work exposed him to a range of legal issues...