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...spread via the ideas of Thomas Hobbs. Hobbs challenged the doctrine of the divine right of kings, declaring that legitimate government is formed by contracting men, and that temporal power is always superior to ecclesiastical power. (Although we remember that over four centuries earlier, the barons extorted the Magna Charta from King John, we do not as readily recall that before the year was out, John repudiated the document and was released from its observance by the Pope. John died the following year, 1216, and the agreement was reissued by Henry III.) Social contract theory was further developed by John...
Three commission members, aligned themselves with Nixon's position. In a minority report, they called the findings of the Commission a "Magna Carta for the pornographer," and said, "the commission is presumptuously recommending that the United States follow Denmark's lead in giving pornography free rein...
...Dirty Magna Carta. Anyone with common sense, said Keating, knows intuitively that "one who wallows in filth is going to get dirty" and that "those who will spend millions of dollars to tell us otherwise must be malicious or misguided or both." Keating charged that the report "flouts the underlying opinions and desires of the great mass of the American people...
...Commission Members Winfrey C. Link and Morton A. Hill, both clergymen, the majority report was "a Magna Carta for the pornographer," fraudulent because it was based on "scanty and manipulated evidence." Pornography, they contended, is "loveless, degrades the human being and reduces him to the level of animal...
...fall; Stanley R. Bond, 26, another ex-convict from Walpole who entered Brandeis last February on the special prison STEP program; Kathy Power, 21, a Brandeis senior active in the national student strike center there through the spring and summer; and Susan Saxe, 21, a June graduate of Brandeis, magna cum laude in American and English Literature...