Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on poverty [May 17] prompted these thoughts: I believe that if we spent just one-half of what we now allow for Aid for Dependent Children on the building and staffing of good resident institutions-call them orphanages if you must-and set up the legal and social-work procedures needed to get a majority of hard-core poor children into these institutions at an early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they...
...verdict in his favor, one for the verdict that the jury delivered, he immediately announced his intention to appeal. Whether he eventually wins or loses, one thing is certain: few individuals have been as influential as Ralph Ginzburg in pushing the courts toward a refinement of legal definitions...
Specifically, in federal cases the Senators struck down the court's Miranda requirement that arrested suspects be told of their rights to silence and legal counsel. Down, too, went the ruling that such suspects have the right to have a lawyer present at lineups. The Senators also voided the court's holding that confessions may not be used if obtained during an unreasonable delay between arrest and arraignment. Such attacks on the court are not yet assured, however. The bill must now go to a Senate-House conference committee chaired by New York Representative Emanuel Celler, and Celler...
...very worried about the dangers of a kind of political activity that ignores the ironies and ambiguities of life, including political life. And I am worried about the apparently inevitable things that happen to all institutions, the legal calcifications and rigidities that occur in even the most militantly free and flexible of groups once they have obtained power, once they start consolidating themselves and become self-protective. These are problems that I think transcend even the New Left; they're human problems...
...point of departure is the 1964 election and the legislation that followed from it in 1965, which at long last completed the program of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. "Everyone except the Neanderthals agreed on Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than the traditional American optimism that says...