Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about treaties, breaches of international obligations and reparations for such breaches, provided such disputes are submitted to it by both parties. There is also an optional clause attached to the statute, which if accepted by a nation thereby pledges that nation to compulsory jurisdiction of the Court in certain legal disputes with other nations, who also have accepted the optional clause. Eighteen nations have adopted this optional clause-although Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan are not among them. (The President's proposal for our participation in the Court does not call for adherence to the optional clause...
...amendment for every new piece of social legislation. Many believe the provisions of the Constitution are broad enough now to permit legislation making for social justice. But if five members of the Supreme Court do not think so, let there be an amendment which will satisfy their legal scruples. The Supreme Court has already upheld social legislation based on the police power. Laws regulating hours of labor, housing conditions, etc., are all based on the police power. The Minimum Wage Law would have been tolerated on the same grounds, if Mr. Taft...
...those who believe that you can force industrial peace by legal enactment
...originated by Mrs. Catt, dates back to 1919. It aims to be non-partisan in organization-its members are both Republican and Democratic in politics-and it is definitely opposed to separate political action by women. Its purpose is to arouse civic responsibility among women, and to remove unjust legal restrictions on the equality of women. It is opposed, however, to the National Woman's Party which advocates absolute or "blanket" equality for women, because such a measure would do away with special protective laws for women in industry...
Many nice legal points are involved in such an agreement. The French view with alarm the proposed con cessions to an American concern which, as they state, would operate to the disadvantage of French interests. In Anatolia the French Government acquired important concessions from former Ottoman governments, and they still regard these as belonging to their own peculiar province. The Matin concludes: "Is there a change in favor of American projects? It is essential that we know that before the resumption of negotiations at Lausanne...