Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the incredible statement [Sept. 3] that "the U.S. came to accept the right and duty of the churches to influence legislation when a moral issue was involved." Who or what bestowed this duty? The Founding Fathers? The U.S. Constitution? That Constitution is a civil document dealing with the legal, not the moral, rights and duties by which citizens shall be governed in their relationship with one another. The builder of our Grandiose Society is tearing down the constitutional separation of church and state...
...Your discussion [Sept. 10] of George Spater's Michigan Law Review article on the law of noise was well done, giving this interesting piece of legal scholarship the exposure it merits. However, one implied criticism of Spater's motives or intellectual honesty deserves explanation. Spater was himself concerned that his connection with the airline industry be disclosed. At his suggestion, the introductory article of the issue described his position. Any blame for inadequacy of disclosure is mine...
Clustered in the next echelon are Marvin Watson, who helps Valenti in scheduling the presidential day, Jake Jacobsen, a troubleshooter and sometime legislative liaison man who aspires to succeed O'Brien as chief White House representative on Capitol Hill, and Lee White, a legal adviser, who may also depart soon...
...Wyoming precedent reflects a new legal tension over the rights of the mentally ill. Of the roughly 300,000 Americans who will enter mental hos pitals this year, more than half will be committed against their will. While medicine seeks earlier and faster cures, the law's problem is to protect the patient's rights in the process...
...persistently interesting issue is the matter of communications between the Administration and Health Services in drug cases. Dr. Farnsworth urged an attempt to help students find "medical solutions" before they are implicated in legal or disciplinary action; no "spy system" would be set up to inform the authorities, he promised. Later in the spring, when the Administrative Board ousted a freshman for giving and selling marijuana to his friends, the Health Services were involved only after the case went to the Police--and then only in an attempt to assist the victims medically...