Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no way to know how many books or parts of books were inspired by the course. Miller himself published articles and several anthologies from its material, one of them, The Legal Mind in America, a classic example of the "creative" anthology; he also wrote one book, The Raven and the Whale, from these researches, but that was incidental to his main purpose. As a major work, he planned a continuation of his early books on the New England mind and Jonathan Edwards, to be called The Life of the Mind in America...
...fatalistically preoccupied with the question of its own national identity. As he traces "the devious paths through which America made its way out of the eighteenth century into the nineteenth," it becomes clear that these are mostly paths of conflict. The two complete sections, "The Evangelical Basis" and "The Legal Mentality", describe endless conflict between emotional and intellectual factions at all levels of society...
History as well as religion challenged the future of the new nation, and to many it seemed certain that America, like another Rome, would follow the inevitable "course of empire" to destruction. To the legal mind, however, America seemed likely to fall only to its own barbarians. And if barbarians came from within, they would surely come from too much (or too little) democracy. So Justices Kent, Story, and the others struggled to create an American law capable of thwarting the course of empire, a system which could both fix and hold the American identity. "The Marshall court and Taney...
...after entering such a center, however, the patient and four of his relatives or friends must be in formed of his right to a jury hearing. Any one of them can then demand it. If the patient is committed, he need no longer fear being held indefinitely with no legal recourse except a writ of habeas corpus. Now his case must be reviewed by a court at intervals of six months, one year, and every two years thereafter. Moreover, the new law provides a fact-finding state mental-health service with trained lawyers and case workers, who will not only...
...unions, the Guild negotiates individually with each paper. For the moment, at least, it is only fighting with the Times, and last week the Printing Pressmen's union filed suit to enjoin the other publishers from stopping their presses. But a court decision was postponed in the legal wrangle...