Word: processes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a devastating performance in the 200-yd. freestyle. Tiger junior Andy Saltzman burst into the lead after 75 yards and handed Crimson superstar Bobby Hackett (one of those weakened by the flu) his first individual defeat ever in Easterns competition, qualifying for the NCAAs (1:39.01) in the process...
...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 provide for an alternate method, under which two-thirds of the states ask Congress to call a convention to propose amendments...
While politicians of both parties scramble to show how austere they can be, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress generally oppose a convention--they would rather keep control of the amendment process themselves. The pressure for a convention comes chiefly from Republican state legislators, and all but five of the 29 states which have already asked Congress to summon a convention are west of the Mississippi--the same area which gave Gerald Ford his near...
...opponents also conveniently ignore the ratification process, which would block radical change no matter how far afield a convention's amendments ran. It is true that the 1787 convention tossed its agenda aside and offered an entirely new constitution; the states ratified it then because of the apparent weakness of the old Articles. Today there is no widespread sentiment for drastic constitutional revision, and any attempt to try it would be laughed out of the state legislatures...
...world--one in which all people relate to each other as humans, instead of as representatives of their sexes. But I feel RUS is trying to thwart this aim. By encouraging the separation of the sexes, it only perpetuates misunderstanding between the sexes and detracts from the process of true human liberation for everyone. And they insult me by making me an enemy in their implied "war of the sexes." Doug Kruse...