Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very far away if the nation's latest political crisis is not settled soon. Italy was without a government, thanks to the small Christian Democratic faction which voted down Premier Aldo Moro fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 28). And though President Giuseppe Saragat had asked Moro to reform his Cabinet, the days passed with no news of his success...
Ever since the November elections, when his Liberal Party again failed to win an absolute majority of the Canadian House of Commons, Prime Minister Lester Pearson has been acting like a man preparing his exit. Rather than try to undertake any new economic and social reform measures, Pearson has set up what amounts to a caretaker government to continue present policies...
Fair Formula. In phrases that echoed those of Andrew Jackson, who demanded reform of the presidential-election process in eight successive messages to Congress, Johnson urged elimination of "several major defects"-notably the electors' theoretical right to disregard the winning candidate's popular majority. They can either elect someone who is not even a candidate or, in a close election, fail to give any nominee a majority and so put the election up to the House of Representatives. The present system provides that if the choice goes to the House, each state delegation has a single vote. Johnson...
...Electoral College system showed serious flaws almost from the beginning. With the rise of political parties in the 1790s, it became an undemocratic anachronism by which three candidates who had run second in the popular election actually became President.* While Congress has considered dozens of proposals for reform, the system has remained basically intact since the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, prescribed separate electoral votes for President and Vice President...
...second day, Couve added a "calendar" of reform: the Six must accept Couve's ten commandments by Jan. 31. The E.E.C. Commission must be fused with the related European Atomic Energy and Goal and Steel Community commissions in a new 14-member body by April 1-and Hallstein was not one of the 14 the French had in mind. Couve told the ministers that they had until Feb. 1 to agree to let France retain its veto over their joint decisions, even though, under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, a qualified majority vote went into effect...