Word: sanctions
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...Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people of a state could elect a majority of that state's legislators. To conclude differently and to sanction minority control of state legislative bodies, would appear to deny majority rights in a way that far surpasses any possible denial of minority rights that might otherwise be thought to result. Since legislatures are responsible for enacting laws by which all citizens are to be governed, they should be bodies which are collectively responsible to the popular will. Our constitutional system amply...
...nation's most effective representative abroad, but he also provides the authority and humor the Queen lacks. In the case of Irene, he backed the view of the Queen and the government that, given the Carlist political complications, the wedding must take place without official family sanction...
Last week the Legislature received a proposal which would sanction the sterilization of any person convicted three times as a felon. It is also considering a bill that would permit the sterilization of any woman bearing two illegitimate children...
...Democratic segregationists, the rights bill is, in the words of Georgia's Russell, a "hideous" thing, "an instrument of unparalleled tyranny and persecution." It would, Russell predicted, "upset the historic division of powers among the three branches of the Government." It would sanction "such vast governmental control over free enterprise in this country as to commence the processes of socialism." It would, moreover, lead to the "mongrelization of our people," and Russell could not recall a single instance "in all of human history in which a mongrel race has been able to preserve a great civilization, much less...
...there, even where young people are free to choose, they often choose for purely practical reasons. In arranged marriage, it is expected that love may or may not come later-and remarkably often it does. If not, it may be found outside marriage. The church, of course, does not sanction this system...