Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limit the Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional, Senator Norris and many another liberal favor requiring more than a simple majority of the Supreme Court to hold a law unconstitutional (perhaps seven justices instead of five) in order to give Congress more latitude in legislating on points where the dispute is close on Constitutional questions. Only serious liberal objection to this proposal: at some future day, a liberal majority on the Supreme Court might not be able to invalidate laws abridging human rights passed by a reactionary Congress...
...Last week when the news papers were still carrying dispatches from Tennessee where a nine-year-old girl had become a bride (TIME, Feb. 8, 15), news hawks turned up at Calvary to hear a visiting Tennessee preacher, Rev. Dr. Robert Jones. He said Tennessee had set no age limit for marriages because "we just took it for granted that everybody had sense enough not to marry so young. . . We have 50 colleges and universities in Tennessee, and there isn't a more cultured State in the Union...
...will not join the twenty-seven ratifiers of the child labor amendment seems sure now that the church leaders and other prominent persons have sharpened their objections. Just as anxious as anybody to keep youth out of the sweatshops, they are afraid that Congress given the power to "regulate, limit, and control the labor of children under eighteen" will regiment them on fascist lines. Yet time has failed to flush any dark lots lurking behind the measure. Knocked about state legislatures for thirteen years, it has no continuous and cohesive political backing, nor can the the welfare agencies that push...
...offers to the interested undergraduate. It provides him with the chance to meet a highly representative cross-section of the leaders of our country. In digesting their empirical ideas he is better able to estimate the real worth of his studies in the social sciences. And there is no limit to the satisfaction of seeing his own instructors put to task at defending their own convictions against scholars and public figures of opposing views...
...Deal followers in Congress had since election been cogitating Constitutional amendments to give the Federal Government power to regulate industry, labor and agriculture. They had been pondering Acts to force the licensing of corporations engaged in interstate commerce, to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, to require more than a mere majority of the Court to declare a law unconstitutional, etc., etc. Now the President was striding forward to take over the whole show, as usual...