Word: musts
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...just can't make it from California to the East Coast legal," sighs Jerry Reeve, 37. "The Federal Government and state bureaucrats have made liars and thieves of us all," adds a driver. "Everybody finds ways around the rules." Just to break even, they all feel, they must break the speed limit, drive longer than the regulation ten hours or 450 miles at a stretch, and doctor their logbooks...
Carter expects to strike no major bargains with López Portillo. He hopes only to spur negotiations-on oil and natural gas, immigration and trade policies. Carter, says one adviser, "must restore a sense of mutual trust and cooperation. He's got to change the background music, get rid of the rancor and put the whole relationship back on a candid, open and honest basis." Even these limited goals will tax Carter's formidable skill as face-to-face negotiator and healer of hurt feelings, for the Mexicans believe, with considerable reason, that the U.S. has long...
...They fear they will be moving into a constitutional no man's land uncharted by the founding fathers. Article V of the Constitution simply provides that a convention will be called when two-thirds of the state legislatures petition Congress for one. Any amendments adopted by the convention must be ratified by three-quarters of the states before taking effect. There is no evading the clarity of the text. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper No. 85, "The words of the article are peremptory. Congress shall call a convention. Nothing in this particular is left to the discretion...
Congress, however, must attend to all the not-so-trivial details of such a convention. How will the delegates be chosen? Will the states have equal representation, as in the U.S. Senate, or will their votes be weighted according to population? How long can the convention go on? Above all, must it stick to the issue for which it was called, or is it free to consider other matters as well? The convention can certainly be restricted, declares U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell. "Limits can be set," he says. "Congress has a duty to do so." Paul Freund...
Chairman Al Ullman, who was at first disdainful, noted there is "increasing resignation" that the proposal might pass in some form. Another early critic, Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which must also pass on the measure, now says he is reserving final judgment until after the House acts...