Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marshals could be ordered to arrest the paymaster of the House, and the House could retaliate by impeaching the Justices themselves. Even if nothing happened-leaving the Court's order, unenforced, hanging in limbo-the situation would be serious enough. The example of the House blatantly refusing to obey an order of the highest court in the land would undermine the Court's moral suasion...
...manpower and bloodshed. As in judo, the secret is to use leverage and make a state overthrow itself. Bureaucracy facilitates this by severing the loyalties that once personally bound rulers and their servants. A modern bureaucrat follows impersonal orders; if his immediate boss is subverted, the bureaucrat tends to obey orders blindly, even orders designed to topple his own government...
...which went into effeet last week, empowers state troopers, sheriffs or mayors to invoke riot-control procedures, bypassing the old requirement that a judge or justice of the peace must declare that a civil disturbance is a riot. Law officers can deem anyone a rioter who fails to obey a lawful order or provide requested assistance. The police are free to deputize onlookers, who will automatically be guiltless if any person present is subsequently killed or wounded, provided no malice or premeditation is involved. The law allows officers to cordon off any area, prohibit the sale of guns or alcohol...
...Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation had sent five Harvard deans a list of 175 students arrested in the demonstration. The committee then subpoenaed the deans to say which of the students received Federal money. Harvard administrators denounced the investigation but said that Federal law compelled them to obey...
...other departmental regulations, including a requirement that anyone who teaches in the course must promise to obey university codes of conduct, including the guidelines adopted by the Faculty on Monday...