Word: petitioners
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More startling than the substance of the decision are its implication. For Handlin's resolution precluded a debate expected not only by many Faculty, members, but by the 1500 students who last spring signed a petition asking for a referendum on the University's policy of supplying class ranks to...
Not to be outdone, President John C. Bennett of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary announced that a petition urging a change in Catholic teaching on family planning had been sent to Pope Paul VI last June; among the 85 scientists and religious leaders who endorsed it were President Franklin...
The core of Lemercier's dialogues consists of sermons to his fellow monks, in which he describes, among other things, what psychoanalysis told him about himself. He was one of six children of an artillery officer; he says that, he feared his father, and at the same time wanted...
The deadlock stirred a Dixie-dozen legal reactions. The state attorney general petitioned Atlanta's federal district court to uphold the legislature's right to name the Governor. The American Civil Liberties Union filed two suits in the same court to void the anachronistic constitutional provision and order...
Civil rights demonstrators have frequently invoked an American tradition that is as old as the country itself: the First Amendment "right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Harried police have often invoked something else: the power of every state to...