Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are some lawyers--including a representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union--who believe the elimination of the "Supreme Being" clause will not restrict the definition of conscientious objection. A new court case almost certainly has to resolve the issue...
...contended attorneys for Virginia, the court should not intervene. Chief Justice Warren swept the argument away almost contemptuously. "There can be no question," he wrote, "but that Virginia's miscegenation statutes rest solely upon distinctions drawn according to race. We have consistently denied the constitutionality of measures which restrict the rights of citizens on account of race...
...Blue Hill Ave. At 7 p.m. Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, met with the Mayor at City Hall. It was reported that Collins agreed to limit the number of police in Roxbury, to end the yelling and name-calling by police, and to restrict the use of guns. One proposed meeting between organization leaders and Collins failed to materialize, although the leaders stressed the importance of keeping communication open between the community and the Police Department while the tension continued...
...listed, one by one, the legislatures' problems: "so few of our state legislatures (only ten of fifty at last count) envisage annual assemblies for the purposes of legislation.... 35 restrict a member's pay to $3500 a year or less and 23 impose a limit of some 90 days or less upon the length of legislative sessions...
...unspecified, requirements each time it considers barring a member-elect. When the Senate was debating the exclusion of a Utah polygamist, Sen. Knox of Pennsylvania maintained that moral qualifications should remain the province of the electorate, as it expresses itself at the polls, and insisted that Congress restrict itself to objective criteria. But Congress has excluded such unpopular personages as the polygamist; Victor Berger, a Wisconsin Socialist opposed to American participation in World War I; and assorted sympathizers with the South during the Civil War. At least all of these exclusions were supported, however tenuously, by statute or the Constitution...