Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems impossible to deny," Ford said, "that a war of ill-defined aims, of ill-defined scope, involving some weapons which apparently do not meet minimum requirements--such...
Like the classes which preceeded it, this one broadened the scope of student activism, involvement in the University community and national politics. Many members went south in the summer of 1964 to participate in sit-ins, pickets and other civil rights organizing in Mississippi. In one form or another, almost all were drawn into the Vietnam debate; increasingly, they signed petitions, or marched; and, increasingly, they turned against...
...Constitution, that office goes back to 1789, when U.S. district courts were set up with jurisdiction limited largely to maritime cases and suits between citizens of different states. But as federal law grew after the Civil War, so did the need for U.S. trial courts with broader scope. In 1875, district courts were given jurisdiction over a wide range of federal questions. District judges now handle every sort of lawsuit under the federal sun-including antitrust cases, bank robberies, bankruptcies, draft evasion, obscenity suits, patent infringements, railroad disputes, tax dodging and habeas corpus petitions from state prisoners (up 36% since...
...summer project is a much more ambitious venture, involving hundreds of students full-time and other thousands during the weekends. This kind of organizing, though limited in immediate scope, represents a constructive and exciting approach to mobilizing dissent. The students would encourage public discussion by persuading congressmen to hold local hearings, meet with "opinion makers" in the community and provide advice on "alternatives" to the draft...
...permissive environment: The family has become more permissive and so has the church. The college no longer stands so much in loco parentis. The law gives wider latitude for freedom of action. All in all, there is a greater degree of autonomy, a lesser scope for authority. The student stands more on his own and relies more on his peer group...