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Connecticut offered Sherman's compromise a second time and a third. The Madison forces refused to budge. Madison gibed at Connecticut for tax evasion: "Has she paid, for the last two years, any money into the Continental Treasury?" Oliver Ellsworth angrily retorted, "Connecticut had more troops in the field than...
"It was," Linda Brown Smith observed, "almost like Dad was still here, and I was reliving his days in court." Back in 1951, when she was a chubby third- grader in an all-black school, her father, Oliver Brown, was the name plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, the...
Smith's dramatic day in court last October superficially seemed like a replay of history. Examined more closely, it was a measure of how far the nation has progressed toward racial equality since 1954 -- and the difficult distance it still has to travel. While the constitutional battle fought by Oliver...
The common theme of who owns the Government emerges from the witnesses appearing before the Iran-contra congressional hearings ((NATION, June 15)). Retired generals feel a sufficient proprietary sense to conduct foreign policy initiatives on behalf of the U.S. in the Caribbean and the Middle East. Active-duty officers, an...
In 1919 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, "Our Constitution is an experiment, as all life is an experiment." The Constitution is an experiment as the U.S. is an experiment. It was flawed from the beginning as the nation was flawed. But the Constitution has also been the genius of America...