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...President has gone unchecked in his authoritarian practice of foreign war policy," said state represenfative H. James Shea (D.-Newton), author of the recent bill challenging the constitutionality of the war. "The war will end when we take shrewd, aggressive action against it on all jevels of government...
...logic of the Constitution is as valid today as it was in 1789," said Shea. "When you ask a family to send their sons to war, you ask the people through their elected representatives to participate in the awesome judgment...
Speakers at the rally-which is sponsored by the April 15th Rally Committee, a broad coalition of anti-war groups-will include Georgia State Representative Julian Bond, Chicago Conspiracy defendant John Froines, and State Representative H. James Shea, sponsor of the Massachusetts law testing the legality of the Vietnam...
...sign the bill instead of letting it become law without signature, but he added an emergency letter to the bill making its legislation effective immediately, instead of waiting the usual 90 days before becoming law. Governor Sargent thus managed to create two impressions in his act of signing the Shea Bill. His expressed doubts and reservations will mollify conservative elements in the state who sec the bill as a dovish challenge to the Nixon Administration. And his act of signing the bill and speeding its effectiveness should make his reelection campaign more attractive to liberal Republicans and to Democrats. Without...
...constitutionality of the Shea Bill itself will not be decided by the courts until at least the end of this year. There are legal complications with the presentation of the case which may even prevent the Supreme Court from ever debating the issue it poses. Briefly, by Article II of the U. S. Constitution, if the state brings the case as a primary party, the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in the case. This means that the preliminary step of bringing suit in Federal District Court could be avoided. However, as a practical matter, the Supreme Court could direct that...