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...Faculty committee to examine the problem of the size of the College will probably report back before next May to enable full Faculty discussion of the issue this spring, according to Robert W. McCloskey, professor of Government...
...idea of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and of the Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high court to interpret the law it is supposed to uphold. According to Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, the doctrine of nullification embraced by the South since the origin of the states' rights argument "is no different legally from the right of interposition which Louisiana now claims...
From the time of Chief Justice John Marshall, the supremacy of the national government has dominated the Court's decisions. And, as McCloskey notes, "Since the Civil War the notion of interposition has been the battle cry of a lost cause." The overwhelming weight of judicial precedent opposes the Louisiana legislature's actions. The present problem will probably be brought before the high bench. With little chance of the tribunal reversing its former decision, the legislature's arguments will be mere rhetoric, there being no legal ground on which to fight. Although state intervention has worsened the New Orleans situation...
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, said last night he thought the United States Supreme Court would regard such a plan as "state aid to a religious institution, in violation of the 14th Amendment." He cited the 1948 case of McCollum v. Board of Education, in which the Court, by a 5-4 decision, ruled that a "released time" program for the religious training of public school children in Champaign, III., was unconstitutional...
...McCloskey pointed out, however, that there seems to be no obvious way to get standing to sue in such a case. "There should be an attempt" to prove this aspect of the New York plan unconstitutional, he predicted, "but I don't have much confidence in its success...