Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School's example of direct action should find its counterpart in the national sphere in the form of a proposal to determine the status of judicial review by constitutional amendment. From the Administration's viewpoint, there could be no more propitious time to carry out their reform constitutionally by amendment. Sticking by the letter of the law and not the spirit, as President Roosevelt expects to do through a sly application of his appointive power, is obviously as great a crime as any judgment the Supreme Court could possibly hand down. The crowning example of irony, however, rests...
...committee appointed to study proposals laid before the Council by Morris Earle '38, is headed by Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, and is composed of Earle, Charles W. MacArthur '37, and Neil G. Melone '37. This group will investigate the feasibility of each of the six possible methods of reform proposed in the resolution read at the last Council meeting...
...suggested that the Council consider the question of possible conflict between its activities and the House Committees, and the advisability of including members of the Committees on the regular council. Morris Earle '38 read a resolution which laid the matter before the council and suggested six possible methods of reform...
...before any plan can be put to work, a basic reform is needed in the election to House committees. Today, like independent states, the Houses choose their representatives by whatever system happens to appeal to them. But if the House committees are to be a springboard for jumping into the main Council, home rule will have to give in, and a uniform and standardized system for handling the franchise substituted instead...
...inescapable conclusion is that the President intends to sacrifice his fine ideas for reform of the lower courts on the altar of his last for power over a courageous high tribunal which has hitherto proved recalcitrant to his demand for dictatorial sway. And an interesting commentary on the whole performance is the tomb-like silence from the Harvard Law School, where a group of influential and honorable men, instead of running to the defence of tradition, are indulging in a little sit-down-and-wait strike of their own. For Caesar is ambitious, and the honorable men find it profitable...