Word: provisionally
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In Mississippi, voters finally eliminated from their state constitution a provision prohibiting anyone who engages in a duel from holding public office or voting. Also struck down in the tide of 20th century progress were requirements that the state librarian be a woman and that railroads be routed through a...
There's no question about it: Property taxes are going up. Massachusetts already has the highest property taxes of any state, and the State Supreme Court's 1974 decision in the Sudbury case will make them even higher. The Sudbury decision enforced a state constitutional provision that requires assessment of...
This is a George Wallace-style "send a message to Washington" proposal. It would prohibit assignment of students to any public school on the basis of race, creed, color or national origin. But since this would be merely a state provision, and the federal courts have jurisdiction (as in the...
This would allow the legislature to assess at different rates two types of land: privately-owned recreation land, and land left in its natural state. The legislature presently has this power regarding agricultural and wild or forest land. It's too bad the "natural state" provision is mixed in with...
The President offered one other provision to encourage the cooperation of business leaders: a reduction in unnecessary federal regulations that add to company costs. He cited his deregulation of the airline industry as an example. Yet he did not by any means promise total freedom from Government supervision. "Where regulations...