Word: subverter
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...take the stuff on top of the desk at which he sits has a justification of necessity which does not eat away the great principle of the Fourth Amendment. But to assume that this exception of a search incidental to arrest permits a freehanded search without warrant is to subvert the purposes of the Fourth Amendment by making the exception displace the principle ... By the Bill of Rights, the founders of this country subordinated police action to legal restraints not in order to convenience the guilty but to protect the innocent . . . They knew too well that the successful prosecution...
...elaborating on the thesis that the University should concern itself with the loyalty oath, McCormick said, "the Union feels Harvard students are admitted according to faculty, not government, standards and the Navy program here should not be permitted to subvert these standards...
Party members will, of course, go underground. They have never been a serious threat at the polls, and their only effective mode of operation has not been as Communists at all, but as parts of other organizations, whose purposes they have sought to control and subvert...
...doubt this is startling doctrine. A Huey Long in the President's chair might utilize it to subvert most things that free men call desirable. But Professor Commager notes that over the course of the years legislatures have generally had their way. The Supreme Court has often declared a law unconstitutional only to have the sovereign people cancel out the "judicial nullification" by amendment, or by new law, or by judicial reversal obtained by the appointment of new judges, or by political pressure from the White House...
Harvard must not subvert the democratic idea that we are supposed to be fighting for by requiring men to take defense courses; but it can indicate to those who are honestly interested what their role...