Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight hundred police chiefs will hear Dr. Alan R. Moritz of the Medical School's department of legal medicine talk tomorrow on the "Investigation of Homicide" at their organization's annual convention in New York...
Laws prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and Negroes are on the books of 30 states,* have survived every legal test. Last week one of those states changed its mind. California's ban on mixed marriages was declared unconstitutional by a 4-to-3 decision of the state's Supreme Court. Marriage, said the majority opinion, is a fundamental right of free men; and the right to marry includes the right to marry the person of one's choice...
...decision also declared the law contrary "to the fundamental principles of Christianity." This point might become the basis for attacks on other states' laws. The Roman Catholic Church had helped to carry through the legal test, on the grounds that the law abridged the freedom of religion, thus violated the Federal Constitution...
...officials say that the campaign is designed to clear the way for fire trucks in cases of early morning alarms. If this were the purpose, the drive would be completely justified. But the Cambridge fire chief denies this is the reason. Fire engines can pass through all streets where legal parking space is used, at any time--day or night. If they couldn't of course, then city officials would be hazarding the lives and property of their citizens for the sake of the small change from parking meters. Snow removal in the winter requires streets to be clear...
...according to this thesis, the duty of the Church to prevent all men, whether Catholics or not, from committing such a crime. This is indeed a difficult argument to answer on its own grounds. In this nation, however, the question of murder is a legal rather than a sectarian matter. It is not, therefore, relevant to argue it on a religious level. And when the Church attempts to force such doctrines on the state, it challenges the fundamental precept of a free society...