Word: opinionation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protection of the Fourth Amendment does not extend to all citizens. The decision left 30 of the 48 states free to use the evidence that has to be tossed out of all federal courts. To compound the confusion, Justice Frankfurter added one more helpful remark to the majority opinion: if a state passes a law to legalize searches which are already legal in fact, the Supreme Court may have to declare it unconstitutional...
...what a magnificent future they are building. Tied to petty, European standards of measurement, Americans keep thinking that they are a great nation, instead of "an advance copy" of the "rootless Elysium" that is to come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful human impulse to befriend, to treat all men as brothers...
...they had watched manufacturing alcohol for months. The court would not admit the alcohol as evidence because the G-men had no search warrant when they seized it. That much zeal for civil rights, Government agents felt, transcended common sense. The majority of the court, however, maintained that their opinion did make sound constitutional sense...
...growing body of U.S. opinion answers, "Soon." U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder is about to leave for Europe in a mood to ask European financial authorities why general devaluation, beginning with the pound, should not start...
...hiring known Communists, and are justified in firing them in cases where a teacher has clearly sacrificed his freedom to use his own independent judgment. Use of this latter power, however, threatens a flood of abuses; it can only be held in check by an aroused and vigorous public opinion, among faculty and students and (so far as possible) among the public at large...