Word: preception
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority, Justices E. Barrett Prettyman and James M. Proctor, conceded that Miss Bailey had been caught up in "harsh rules which run counter to every known precept of fairness to the private individual." But they decided that possible injury to her was not the central issue: "We do not think that the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution necessarily mean that a Government dedicated to those rights cannot preserve itself in the world as it is." Anyway, the Constitution was not involved, since no one has a constitutional right to a Government job. "If [the President] thinks that under present...