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It is not clear that either objection was grounds for exclusion. The Constitution, which allows each house to "be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members," explicitly enumerates these qualifications. Under Article I, section 2, a representative must be at least 25-years old, a...
> GRADUATE DEFERMENTS. Johnson proposed to end such exemptions, excusing only medical and dental students. The Senate offered no objection, and the House provided only that a presidential board determine if any shortages of critical skills require deferments to be continued in specific fields.
A few days after the stakeouts began in the rear of Pilgrim stores and parked cars near by, the story made headlines in the Houston papers. Then Police Chief Herman Short claimed he had heard a rumor to the effect that there would be a $1,000 bounty for each...
In addition to dispensing with this restriction, Congress and the President should seriously consider sanctioning by law conscientious objection to particular wars. The arguments against such particular objections, like those raised last Sunday by University Preacher Charles Price, are not convincing. Price contended that there is no "principle" involved in...
Congress is probably not ready to handle the problem of objection to particular wars in this session, but in the meantime, the conference committee on draft legislation should throw out the House's proposed restrictions on regular conscientious objectors. It should urge the President to cut deferments and institute a...