Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harry W. Jones maintained that it takes a stretching of history to apply the First Amendment ban on "establishment" to state actions. At the time the Bill of Rights was ratified, several states had established churches, and one purpose of the "establishment clause," as lawyers call it, was "to prohibit the Federal Government from interfering with existing church-state arrangements in the states." Jones pointed out that the wording-"no law respecting an establishment of religion"-would apply "as clearly to a congressional statute interfering with existing state establishments as to a congressional statute establishing a national church...
...final guarantee of bonhomie throughout the conference, party officials dusted off an obscure by-law that permits them to prohibit debate on subjects that have been "fully and adequately explored" within the previous three years. Astonishingly, they used the rule to cut off any discussion of the thorny problems of defense and foreign policy...
...Themselves. No one seemed certain just what Valachi's appearance before the committee might gain. Bobby spoke about new wiretap laws and extending immunity from prosecution for racketeers who cooperate with the Justice Department. McClellan said vaguely that he had in mind some kind of law to "prohibit membership in such a criminal and secret organization as Cosa Nostra." And Joe Valachi thought organized crime should probably be outlawed-largely because "the bosses been thinking only of themselves for years...
...House Rules Committee. But even in the Senate version, which barely passed, 47-44, the inclusion of the Thurmond amendment threatens the bill's efficacy. By making the Corps' activity contingent upon a governor's approval, the amendment needlessly injects the civil rights issue: it will, in effect, prohibit corpsmen from working with Southern Negroes. Inconsistent with a program aimed at aiding needy individuals, the amendment should be excluded from the House draft...
...present government, according to Reischauer. The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan. The students are forced onto the political periphery not only by their class aloofness, but by stringent electioneering laws which prohibit them from ringing doorbells and participating in other such campaign activities, considered "dirty" in Japan...