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Laws and policemen, said the report, are right to "punish procuration, the keeping of brothels and offenses against decency," but sexual malpractice itself can in the end "only be defeated by education." A first step in the educational process, according to the churchmen, would be to erase "the double standard of sexual morality which condemns in women what it condones...
...After listening to a bitter Eastland-McCarthy attack on Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee approved a bill to restore to the states the power to punish subversion and sedition against the U.S. Government, a power removed by a Supreme Court ruling (TIME. April 16) that the Federal Government has sole jurisdiction over subversion and sedition cases...
...protect voters through civil proceedings. Under existing statutes only harsh criminal procedure is open to the Attorney General. Such action often involves emotionally charged trials which are difficult for both sides. Because the primary aim of any civil rights law is to correct an abuse and not to punish an offender, civil proceedings should certainly be made available to the government...
...Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts under state...
...rebellion had started in earnest. That night, the watchman protecting the college property was attacked. For the next four days, there were daily disturbances. Then on May 26, Quincy warned the freshman and sophomore classes that "legal process, civil or criminal," might be taken to punish or prevent "such outrages as had been committed on College property." That night there was more rioting...