Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional dissent. Even so, Frankfurter scolded, a Justice's "duty" is to submerge his personal views while passing judgment. But fellow Justices perceived an other obligation: to protect certain individual rights, like free speech and due process, from the dominance of the majority. Frankfurter, once the great civil libertarian, resisted the court's activism for the rest of his career...
...moderate Republican who will join any conservative, liberal, Democrat, G.O.P.er, populist, libertarian or mugwump willing to stop the carnage...
...were too stuck up and clubby, and you probably were. Now you are consciously, sub-consciously and unconsciously racist and facist and sexist and communist (or Marxist-inspired) and incestuous and pederastic and homophilic and homophobic and wishy-washy and contentious and anarcho-syndicalist and autocratic and authoritarian and libertarian and middle-class and upper-class and naive and snobby...
What conditions have fostered the radical transformation from the libertarian tradition of Aneurin Bevan to the hot-eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became devoid of serious ideas. "There was an ideological vacuum in the Labor Party," says Peter Shipley, a conservative expert on British revolutionaries. "Labor had come to a full stop. The extreme left claimed to have the answers and started to fill the vacuum." Says Alfred Sherman, director of Britain...
...Once described as "the son Franco never had," Juan Carlos had been hand-picked by the Generalissimo as his heir for a modern Spain. With foresight Franco had instructed the future King that "you will have to manage in another way than I do." Yet, despite a reputation for libertarian ideals, Juan Carlos raised few expectations when he became King at age 37, two days after Franco's death. Indeed, political wags cynically dubbed the shy Commander of the Army "Juan Carlos the Brief...