Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will not give in to Hanoi's demands for enforced Viet Cong representation in any government of South Viet Nam. "The U.S.," said the statement, "will not recognize any government that is not freely chosen through democratic and legal process by the people of South...
...century, Menninger, 75, has concluded that most of them are "helpless" people who seem to have had fouralternativesinlife: activism,conformity, insanity, criminality. The criminal, who may be escaping madness, commonly seeks vengeance against real or symbolic tormentors. He is sure that society is wrong, not he. Ironically, the whole legal system tends to confirm his notion. For one thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants...
...which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...
Love is now dying between the judge and the amendment. During the 1960s, he argues, it has served to protect murderers, rapists and bagmen. It has worked to prevent police from getting the information they need to protect life and property. He indicts both legal scholars and the U.S. Supreme Court for turning the Fifth into "an ultimate article of faith in respect to which compromise is impossible...
Friendly also worries because only a slim majority on the Supreme Court now holds that it is legal for police to require a suspect to cooperate in certain scientific tests. Nothing in the amendment, he says, should be construed as protecting an accused man from a "reasonable examination of his body" or from having to submit to voice and handwriting tests or furnish blood and urine samples. To prevent the court from outlawing such techniques, he suggests that they be specifically excluded from Fifth Amendment privileges...