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...understanding is that overnight parking on Cambridge streets is illegal because parked cars (1) constitute a fire hazard and (2) prohibit street cleaning...
...certain methods used to obtain this aim . . . are morally contestable." In other words, the good of society alone is not enough to deprive the individual of his fundamental rights. Even in cases where one or both of the partners are suffering from a hereditary disease, it is wrong to prohibit them from marrying unless one is clearly "incapable of acting as a human being"-i.e., insane...
...deal with, both threats to freedom. During his visit to the U.S., he pledged: "We are firmly resolved not to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, which, by its exaggerated liberalism, permitted the enemies of the country to destroy its democratic institutions. We have . . . laws to prohibit and dissolve such organizations . . . and we will apply them against radical elements of both the right and the left. There will not be another...
...Niort (pop. 29,068) in southwestern France, Caroline Chérie ran into the Abbé Francis Ferrier. Rallying parents' associations, parochial-school pupils, and politicians, the abbe demanded that Mayor Felix Lelant prevent the film from being shown. The mayor thought hard, decided that he might prohibit the film on the grounds that it was a "provocation to riot," and got the municipal council so to rule. That night pro-Carolinians chalked the walls of Niort with the slogan: "Liberate Caroline." The anti-Carolinians retaliated with: "Caroline go Home...
...Received from its Judiciary Committee a bill to prohibit the display of the United Nations flag in a position equal to or above the U.S. flag, except at the U.N. building in Manhattan...