Word: processes
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Letting judges roll around like untethered cannons seems indefensible at a time when the public clamor is all for accountability in government. Yet, before judges are judged too harshly, it is necessary to understand how they fit into the political process and became so powerful...
While the Constitution was going through the ratification process in 1788, Alexander Hamilton confidently predicted that the judiciary would be "the least dangerous" branch of the new Government, since judges would not have the power of the purse or of the sword. Indeed, the first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay, who resigned to be Governor of New York, refused President John Adams' invitation to return, saying that the court lacked "weight and dignity." It was the fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall, who gave the federal bench real clout. Marshall, who believed that a judge should...
...Missouri Compromise and declared slaves to be property with no rights as citizens, it helped start the Civil War. During Reconstruction, the Constitution was amended to ensure that blacks were treated equally: no state, said the majestically vague 14th Amendment, shall deprive persons of "equal protection" or "due process" under...
...matter of fact, the Resolution on Rights and Responsibility gives students the right to protest, to demonstrate and to hold whatever opinions they wish. And incidentally, abolishing the CRR does not abolish the Resolution, it just eliminates the students' voice in the process of discipline. The CRR is the only disciplinary body on campus that has student participation--and an equal voice at that. The students have no other voice; advocating the CRR's abolition hurts the students. The AD board, for example, has no student representatives. By advocating the abolition of the CRR, students are embarrassing themselves by implying...
...perfect. There are some changes that need attention. But students must send their representatives to the CRR to help in the process. More importantly, House Committees should send representatives to insure that we students are represented when and if a case is brought before the Committee. Granted, there have not been many cases in the last few years. But this should serve to show the general trend in the students. Furthermore, most of the students do not even know what the CRR is or does. Students are not opposed to the CRR as you would have us believe...