Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Were Angels. The American Revolution was a rebellion not to overturn that rule of law but to sustain it. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 33 were lawyers; of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 34 were lawyers, steeped in the natural law tradition of Aristotle, Cicero and Aquinas and in the English common law, dedicated to Locke's proposition that sovereignty rests with the people, trained in the law by Coke's Second Institute...
...Paris Gaillard drove through the long-delayed loi-cadre (framework law) to give Algeria limited home rule. Only two months ago the Assembly had cut a more liberal draft to shreds and so brought down Gaillard's predecessor. Partly because Deputies were unwilling to overturn a brand-new government, partly because the new Premier had prudently pruned away the clauses most objectionable to right-wing nationalists, the bill was approved by a 269-to-200 vote...
...Association of the U.S. Army, a private organization made up of Army and ex-Army men and a loud-speaking outlet for top-level Army propaganda. On hand to stir them on were the Army's senior commanders, striving both by indirection and by extraordinarily blunt talk to overturn Defense Department policy and win for the Army a major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance a placard blazoned the Army's basic doctrinal claim to render the Air Force obsolete. "In the missile...
...Menderes government, earnestly wooing the hard-shell rural Moslem vote, did its best for the hodja. When the court of first instance found him guilty and sentenced him to ten months in jail, the public prosecutor, in a curious performance, tried to get the Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction. And when that failed, the prosecutor appealed to Turkey's court of last resort-the Grand National Assembly, which Menderes dominates...
TRANS AMERICAN AIRLINES, biggest U.S. nonscheduled carrier (TIME, April 1), will go out of business June 5. U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn CAB order revoking line's charter because it operated virtually as scheduled line without a franchise...