Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mess, or even run amuck and try to rewrite the entire document. An Article V convention would face a variety of procedural problems, and the Constitution leaves the details fuzzy, but the founding fathers would not have included the option if they never meant anyone to use it. The legal issues are thorny but not unresolvable; opponents of a balanced-budget amendment should rely on the merits of their argument against the amendment itself, and not resort to alarmist exaggerations of the size of the legal problems...
...ALARM continues, and the constitutional argument dominates the controversy. The legal questions are numerous--a memo prepared by Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, which the White House is distributing, lists 21 separate ones, all of which it calls "unanswerable." But the most important one--the one which raises the spectre of large-scale constitutional revision--is whether Congress or the states can limit the convention's agenda...
...reason to expect Congress will meet serious opposition to an act outlining a convention's procedural details. Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) proposed and the Senate adopted just such a bill twice already, in 1971 and 1973, but the House never approved it. And there are legal precedents applicable to each question--for example, it seems probable a convention would contain one delegate from each congressional district and two elected at large from each state, using the precedent of the electoral college...
...supervisor made is a routine decision taken "in cases when we know someone is on the mountain. They're not supposed to be there alone. The weather was severe--a 70 to 82 degree below zero wind-chill factor on top of the mountain. We had a moral and legal obligation to get Mr. Yates," explained Tibbs...
Yates would like to see park systems institute a legal waiver system which would free the government from any responsibility for camper safety. Signing a waiver would also make the hiker more aware of the seriousness of undertaking a hike in the wilderness. However, at the present time, most waivers do not hold up in court...