Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Significance. The Constitution is a politically sacred law and the Constitution says that the President shall have the power to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the executive officers of the Government.? So what the Senate did was entirely legal and done by authority long vested in it. But the proceeding was unique, almost as unique as the following hypothetical proceeding (equally legal, and by authority of equally long standing) would have been had it taken place...
...years. He has taught principally the law of Agency and of Insurance, Constitutional Law, and International Law. During the war he was Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's department, having charge of the department of Constitutional and International Law. He is one of the most learned of legal scholars, a clear and interesting teacher, and a delightful writer on legal topics. He is the oldest of the small group of men now alive who taught in the Law School while Langdell and Ames were deans...
...record would have revealed three significant attainments. He has some local reputation as a corporation and criminal lawyer; he is one of the reactionary "bosses" of his state; and his acquaintance with "Colonel" John Coolidge dates from boyhood. Interesting attainments these are, but hardly adequate preparation for the legal representative of the American people...
Premier Herriot countered by ordering the Prefects to remind parents that, in obeying the Catholic Archbishop, they would render themselves liable to legal prosecution by transgressing the law of 1871 which provides for fines and imprisonment for parents keeping their children away from school...
...fireworks or gun play. A soft spring breeze etherized the Faculty Room of the Union, there was no hint of unconstitutionalism. Harvard snoozed and smiled, voted and assented to the same names it had protested against last week. It was a victory of tact over pressure, common sense over legal foolishness. The undergraduate temper must not be trified with...