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Carter calls for frugality and restraint...
Union members argue, with some justice, that they have already suffered enough from Britain's war on inflation. In 1975 they agreed to a "social contract," under which wage demands were held down in exchange for increased government benefits. Over the past three years, their restraint helped reduce inflation from 24.2% to about 8% last year. But, with Britain's economy bubbling from an infusion of North Sea oil, the unions feel it is time to recoup the sacrifices of the past. They regard Callaghan's effort to impose a 5% ceiling on settlements as a challenge...
Most of the legislation on the congressional agenda reflects the members' cost-cutting mood. "Congress has an eye toward fiscal restraint," says Byrd. "In the last Congress we cut appropriations about $15 billion. In the upcoming Congress, we'll see a continuation of that mood." Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, says he is determined to hold the line on spending. He admits that his committee work has modified his views. "I have been educated," he says. "I have become convinced that we've got to be more prudent and restrained and selective...
...Burger Court of the 1970s has proved less liberal, but it is hardly a model of judicial restraint. Rather, it is what scholars call "selectively activist," which some say means that its activism depends on whether or not it likes the result. One of its most activist decisions remains Roe vs. Wade (1973), which found in the Constitution an implicit right for women to have abortions. Although equal protection has of late been invoked less in the cause of the poor and the black, it has been extended to just about everyone else, including aliens, bastards and even...
...once prizes majority rule and individual freedom; an independent judiciary remains the best insurance that the former does not steamroll the latter. In the end, that means relying on judges themselves to exercise self-restraint. Few would ask the judges to undo all the rights they have advanced in the past 25 years. Yet, having done so much to change society, the judiciary might now pay more heed to the dictum of Justice Louis Brandeis. "The most important thing we do," he said "is not doing...