Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unanimous decision, the court prohibited the Government from compelling individual party members to register with the Government as stipulated by the Subversive Activities Control (McCarran) Act of 1950. "In an area permeated with criminal statutes," maintained Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'s opinion, by the 1950 law the party member would be forced to incriminate himself, in violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment...
...Review), and profit thus by the experience of our comrades abroad. There is no "chain of command" in the world Communist movement. All parties are equal in these conferences and meetings in so far as they can contribute their experience. It is of interest here to note that the McCarran Act establishes an "international conspiracy" on the basis of parallel positions. Of the parallel positions admitted before the Supreme Court in the trial of our Party, nearly half were taken by our Party before the Soviet communist Party announced them...
...national origins" quota system created in 1924. It was designed to reflect the U.S. population makeup as of 1920 and heavily favored North European nations, while offering only the stingiest quotas to other parts of the world. Despite all the hysterical criticism that comes its way, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 actually liberalized the quota system, particularly for Orientals...
...deems to be of a Communist nature. Then, whether or not this person has actually committed espionage or any other illegal act, he can be forced to register (and suffer the consequences) or can be penalized by the courts for not registering. In the words of Justice Black, the McCarran Act is "a classical bill of attainder which our Constitution in two places prohibits, for it is a legislative act that inflicts pains, penalties and punishments in a number of ways without a judicial trial...
...order to determine whether or not a group is of a "Communist" nature, the McCarran Act expressly instructs the SACB to examine "the extent to which the positions taken or advanced by it from time to time on matters of policy do not deviate from those of any Communist-action organization..." This sort of guilt-by-parallelism stigmatizes liberal views which sometimes do coincide with the views of Communists. Such legislation, which forces groups to look over their shoulders to see if Communists are agreeing with them, can only serve to paralyze progressive thought...