Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, February 20--The Republican - controlled House sailed through a party line roll-call vote of 239 to 159 today to limit spending in the next fiscal year to $31,500,000,000, instead of following President Truman's minimum estimate...
While the nation's attention is absorbed by the Lilienthal case, budget and tax curs, and labor legislation, the Republican leadership with unusually little noise and difficulty has obtained all bit final Congressional approval for a constitutional amendment limit Presidential tenure. This piece of "must" legislation is another all-too-common example of hasty, vengeance-begotten acts which have already thrown the 80th Congress into a maze of political confusion on each of the three, mentioned spotlighted issues...
Steamrollered through the House and the Senate Judiciary Committee, this proposed amendment would put a limit of two terms or nine years (in the case of a Vice-President assuming office) on the tenure of any President. Viewed superficially, it would seem that this was innocuous enough, inasmuch as only one president has been successful in gaining more than two terms of office. But regarded from both the theoretical and the practical angle, the dangers, inherent in the passage of this measure take sudden and disturbing shape. Many students of government and political theory question the element of democracy involved...
Speaker Joe Martin thought things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
...rapid switch of "facts" attested to by each side after the Supreme Court decision of June 10, 1916, indicates that the contest is not one between Right and Wrong, but merely a struggle between two greedy factions to exploit the law to the limit of their respective advantages. In order to exploit the Supreme Court's decision and at the same time avoid the pitfall. "The law cares not for small things," labor lawyers upped their sworn estimate of walking time from two to fifteen minutes...