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...France became the first to follow America's lead when they drafted modern constitutions in 1791, the largest impact has been recent. More than three-quarters of today's charters were adopted after World War II. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, could have been speaking for the rest of the Third World when he told the U.S. Congress in 1949, "We have been greatly influenced by your own Constitution...
...This was not responsible journalism," said Orgeron. "This school does not extol those kinds of things. That's why this paper has to stop." The principal seized the last 30 of the 150 copies Cat had run off. She had sold the rest at 50 cents a pop. The young woman likes to tell her own story...
...framers of the Constitution could not possibly have foreseen the America of the late 20th century, with its enormous national Government, its multinational corporations, its crime, computer technology, genetic engineering, pollution, mass media, nuclear weapons and the rest. Madison did not permit the notes that he made during the Constitutional Convention to be published until after his death, believing that the Constitution must stand alone, that the specific thoughts of individual framers were essentially irrelevant and might even be mischievous in later times...
Finally, by the 1960s, most of the rest of the world had gone or was going / metric. Congress responded with legislation, and in 1975, after years of debate, the Metric Conversion Act became law. The U. S. finally appeared ready for a decisive entry into a new metric...
Unless Congress circumvents Reagan's veto (possibly by attaching the fairness-doctrine measure to another piece of legislation), the issue will once again rest with the FCC, which has been steadily eliminating or easing many Government restrictions on broadcasters. Among them: limitations on the number of stations one company can own and minimum requirements on news and public-affairs programming. Dennis Patrick, the new FCC chairman, vows to continue the trend. "The electronic media," he says, "should enjoy the same First Amendment freedom as the print media." If his view prevails, fairness may no longer be a Government call; like...