Word: mortmain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FEBRUARY 9 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Senator Charles McC. Mathias, a freshman Republican from Maryland, argued for the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. His own measure (SJ 166) would accomplish this as well as repeal "the mortmain of past Congressional resolutions that have been interpreted as relinquishing broad authority to the executive to intervene militarily around the world." Mathias was voicing the growing eagerness of the Senate to restrict the sway of the President in foreign affairs...