Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government had in mind, beamed Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, was "a veritable emancipation of women." Under the new bill, a married woman for the first time will be able to take a job or open a bank account without her husband's permission. She will have the legal right to help decide where her children can go to school, to veto his plans to sell her property, and retain her own possessions if there is a divorce...
Unhealthy Resistance. The reasonable answer would seem to be: submit now and sue later for false arrest. It is legal to resist illegal arrest in 47 states, but the right goes back to a day when armed citizens combatted weak police to avoid harsh imprisonment. Today the equation is so changed that it rarely pays to resist...
...mistake can be fatal; it is legal for a cop to use all necessary force, even to kill a fleeing felon; but his power to use force is much more limited in the case of a fleeing misdemeanant. There comes a point when the arrester may be subject to murder charges-and when the arrestee is entitled to shoot back in self-defense...
...Brooklyn, ex-Convict George Maldonado had apparently never heard of the old legal maxim that "the man who defends himself has a fool for a client." "Your Honor, I don't feel that this man, in eight or ten minutes, can defend me," Maidonado protested, after a court had assigned a Legal Aid Society lawyer to handle his latest trial for burglary. "I want to act as my own attorney." The judge refused the request. Maldonado wound up in Sing Sing prison. But U.S District Judge Charles H. Tenney granted Maldonado a conditional writ of habeas corpus...
President Johnson is understandably worried about upsetting the balance of Federal and State authority. But he has the legal power to dispatch Federal forces and a considerable precedent for the exercise of that power. Most important, he has the moral responsibility to act now. The welfare and perhaps the lives of the thousands who will make this march are at stake, and if the President hesitate, America is the loser...