Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Problems Than Answers. While the Warren opinion spelled out the new legal principles, it also raised more problems, legal and nonlegal, than it solved. Precisely how equal must equal-population districts be? Can a single legislator roaming, for example, a huge, sparsely settled Texas range serve his constituents as well as can the city legislator with a pocket-sized district? Is it really helpful to run the risk of giving a big-city political machine, such as Chicago's, a stranglehold on a whole state? If both branches must be based on population, why not save money...
...frightened St. Petersburg resident called the police for advice on how to handle a prowler. "If you catch this guy at your front door," said the officer, "it's O.K. to shoot him, but make sure he falls inside." Reason: in Florida it is legal to shoot an intruder in one's house, but not in one's yard. In few other cities can citizens expect such straightforward advice from their police. Yet with crimes of violence increasing, more and more Americans are concerned about how to protect themselves and still stay within...
Aiding others under attack is fraught with more legal perils than protecting one's self. Most Americans find it outrageous that New Yorkers fail to aid fellow citizens who are being mauled by thugs on streets and subways. Yet no matter how cowardly New Yorkers may be, the fact is that under the law anyone who intervenes in an attack exposes himself to the possibility of severe penalties. If a good Samaritan repels an attacker too aggressively, or inadvertently jumps in on the wrong side, he may wind up under arrest for assault...
...public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos and The Damnation of Faust. After the first two years, critics were heralding...
...successive decisions against prayer in schools; in fact, as this month's hymn-laden commencement ceremonies show, prayer is still very much in schools, regardless of the court. But church leaders, at first often prone to echo their congregations in opposing the court, have thought through the legal implications of attempting to overrule the court by constitutional amendment. They now overwhelmingly agree that the court has affirmed the essential meaning of the First Amendment: it protects all religions by establishing none...