Word: lex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious-problem, say civil libertarians, is that laws specifically designed for the Baader-Meinhof lawyers have universal application. Indeed, a prosecutor tried to apply a section of the so-called Lex Baader-Meinhof to a lawyer in an ordinary extortion and robbery case in Cologne before it was applied to radical lawyers, prompting an appeals court, which denied the exclusion, to warn against using it as a "handy disciplinary measure...
...such achievements the Krupps were honored with the coveted Golden Party Badge of the Nazi party. A special law--the "Lex Krupp"--was ordered by Hitler to ensure that the Krupp empire remained in the family's hands. Last month Harvard University became a beneficiary of the Krupp millions...
...More significant than any of the synod's actions was the result of a mail ballot by bishops round the world. It handed a thumping defeat to the proposed text of a church "constitution," a preamble to the new code of canon law. The document, known as the Lex Fundamentalis, had been the target of a sustained assault by progressives because of its emphasis on authoritarian aspects of the church (TIME...
Short Pants. Indeed, Alberigo would prefer to see no Lex Fundamental at all. "A committee of human beings cannot expect to sit down and design this divinely created organism. A design of the church when put into written words no longer is the church of God but the church of a Felici or a commission or a Pope." Though defenders of the concept have argued that any Lex would be amendable, Alberigo contended that the church moves so slowly that "the pants will always be too short." To attempt to construct a constitution at this point in history, he said...
...blast from Bologna may have been the harshest so far, but it was not the most influential. That came last month when Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, primate of Belgium and outspoken leader of the "loyal opposition" within the church (TIME, Aug. 1, 1969), attacked the Lex Fundamentalis in an interview with Director Richard Guilderson of the National Catholic News Service. Though the cardinal left open the question of "whether or not a constitutional law of the church is at all possible," he assailed both the timing and the content of the present draft, borrowing liberally from Alberigo's study...