Word: redressing
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Rights, civil or otherwise, are not and should never be isolated absolutes. No court can ever protect anyone against the will of the majority. When sufficiently provoked, the majority will attack both the court and the minority and redress any such imbalance. I suspect this realization once prompted a Chief Justice to observe that the court did "read the election returns...
Sitting Bull's revenge did not come until the 1960s. The catalyst was the civil rights movement, which forced textbook publishers to do some justice to the role of blacks in American life. But other ethnic minorities, as well as women's groups and antiwar protesters, demanded redress. Organizations from the.B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League to the Council on Interracial Books for Children all pushed for revisions of textbook passages they considered demeaning. Even poor Squanto was taken to task by the Interracial Books people because by helping the Pilgrims, he had given...
...system of justice is a huge and complex machine. Delicately balanced by counterweights, equipped with elaborate filters and safety valves, it is designed to sort the guilty from the innocent, restore rights, redress wrongs. In short, to do justice...
Officials at Yale adopted a formal process for the redress of sexual-harassment grievances last year, Walzer added...
Harvard provides formal bureaucratic procedures for the redress of sexual harassment-related grievances, Judith Walzer, assistant dean for Coeducation, said yesterday...