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...quorum, two thirds of the membership, is necessary to pass either of the two main items on the agenda, which are constitutional amendments. One of the two, a motion to change the present proportional representation balloting system, also requires sanction by two-thirds of the College in a referendum...
...Evanses are sure they know both answers. An educated man would not hesitate, for example, to use the disputed term "quite unique," because it is "used freely by outstanding writers and educators today." They approve of the "because" in "the reason why he failed was because ..." And they sanction the redundant "consensus of opinion" on the ground that "it is used so often." On the other hand, they rigorously rule out scores of cliches on the ground of overuse. Example: "Know enough to come in out of the rain...
...person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally indefensible," the Baptists announced their conviction that the government's policy "had no sanction in the New Testament and was diametrically opposed to the teaching of Christ," and the Methodist Church joined in criticism...
...slogan was taken up by Southern newspapers. Indeed, the issue worried many who were otherwise friendly to civil rights. Yet the contempt citation is the judiciary's historic enforcement tool. Jury trials in contempt cases have absolutely no basis in equity or constitutional law and precious little legislative sanction.* As early as 1894, the Supreme Court wrote: "Surely it cannot be supposed that the question of contempt of the authority of a court of the U.S., committed by-a disobedience of its orders, is triable, of right, by a jury." North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Ervin himself on four...
Under pressure from home the Senate should vote to discharge the bill from committee. Likewise, the President should be able to demonstrate that the bill is no more subversive to states' rights than the laws and court decisions it would enforce. It is rather a practical sanction for an interpretation of our Constitutional rights which is already legal but not in effect...