Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvania, spent four days discussing common problems and possible solutions, agreed on principles of action, and went back home to work on these issues, while nobody really knew that a conference had occurred? Well, you would have the Little 11 conference, which took place February 22 through 25 in Philadelphia...
...pass resolutions, talk for hours on end to no purpose, and argue about procedure. Nevertheless, 20 Harvard-Radcliffe students thought it worth their time and effort to do the research necessary to prepare reports for each of the eight committees of the conference, and then go down to Philadelphia for the four-day meet...
...Harvard delegation has not met since returning from Philadelphia. The plan now is to present all conference findings to the appropriate Student Assembly committees for consideration, and to also work on translating resolutions and suggestions into action here. Conference organizers themselves have set up a follow-up network, and some more issue-oriented, progressive delegates who were on the conference's student government committee plan a meeting later this year. Activists on various campuses have exchanged names and phone numbers. So, for Harvard at least, some tangible results have occurred...
...defray some of its costs, and now the Assembly wants to know if it got its money's worth. Since the conference passed about 40 resolutions--all pre-packaged and ready for Assembly use--you might say the Assembly got a bargain at $5 apiece. And please, no Philadelphia jokes...
...across the country are now clamoring for a convention to propose a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, and liberal oracles everywhere warn it would entangle the branches of government in a messy constitutional conflict. The convention method of amending the Constitution has remained unused ever since the Philadelphia convention wrote it in for the states to use against a Congress that ignored the nation's will. Under the process used for each of the 26 amendments now on the books, Congress proposed the change and three-fourths of the states ratified it. Article V of the Constitution does...