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Unwillingness to acquiesce to the court has a long history in American politics. Presidents from Jackson to Roosevelt have chafed at its authority and challenged its judgments. Conservative legal scholars welcomed the Attorney General's remarks as part of a venerable debate about the bounds of judicial power. "The founding fathers would roll over in their graves if they knew the awesome power the court arrogated to itself," asserts Paul Kamenar of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation. "The Constitution says that constitutional laws and treaties are the supreme law of the land," maintains University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Supreme Or Not Supreme | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...with L'Enfant's grand design for a capital city in which the President's house was to be at the center, Washington paced the ground and set the stakes marking the north wall of the more modest residence designed by James Hoban, which Theodore Roosevelt would dub the "White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Republic's Palace | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...agree with many of Abt's views--I am a Democrat who voted for James Roosevelt '68 in the primaries--but I respect his character and intelligence, and I know he is open to rational argument. I do not know Mr. Kennedy's views, for like any "modern" candidate, attuned to media and pollsters, he jumps erratically in response to the perceived shifts of the electorate. Since I think that a man like Clark Abt is a valuable person in politics, I shall vote for him. I should also say that for the past 15 years, I have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abt | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

Among those jolting were former Congressionalcandidate James Roosevelt Jr. '68, State Sen. SalAlbano (D-Somerville), Cambridge City CouncilorAlice K. Wolf, and several Boston-area staterepresentatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rally Against Anti-Abortion Question | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

...walls became festooned with ecumenical snapshots of the great and the Grossinger: Jack Benny, Robert Kennedy, Lionel Hampton, Jackie Robinson, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Alan Alda, Yogi Berra, Nelson Rockefeller, Ralph Bunche, Eleanor Roosevelt. The 800-acre complex had its own post office (Grossinger, N.Y.), 600 rooms, a l,700-seat dining area, a $7 million annual gross. Its dancing masters Tony and Lucille introduced the mambo to the U.S. Jennie appeared on This Is Your Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: in New York: Simon Says Condo | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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