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Double-Barreled Amendment. As in last year's New York prayer case, Justice Potter Stewart was the only dissenter from the majority opinion. Stewart raised a point that troubled many other minds. He noted that the First Amendment is double-barreled. It requires that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Stewart argued that an "insensitive" interpretation of the establishment clause can conflict with the free exercise clause. Involved in the Pennsylvania and Maryland cases, said Stewart, is "a substantial free exercise claim on the part of those who affirmatively...
That happened in 1961. Last week, in an 8-to-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions. The majority opinion, written by Justice Potter Stewart, argued that "the 14th Amendment does not permit a state to make criminal the peaceful expression of unpopular views...
...William O. Douglas went along, but added their own farther-reaching view that "Congress has no power" to deprive a native-born citizen of citizenship. William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a separate concurring opinion. The other four Justices dissented, in two separate opinions, basically on the ground that, as Potter Stewart put it, loss of citizenship is not "punishment in the constitutional sense of that term," but an effect of a "regulatory measure" enacted to deal with a "basic problem of wartime morale...
Coach Jack Barnaby was pleased with John Vinton's effort during his loss to Niederhoffer. Having overcome the dismaying spurts of lackadasical play that had nearly cost him his match with Dartmouth's best, Hop Potter, Vinton controlled the center of the court most of the time and succumbed only to Niederhoffer's extra speed and finesse...
Republican National Chairman William E. Miller hailed his party's gains in the South as a "breakthrough." Crowed I. Lee Potter, head of the Republican National Committee's Operation Dixie: "The tide is coming in now in the South...