Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elbe, a Bonn legal expert: "We did not want to make the Germans just imitate the American constitutional model but rely on themselves to reform, rebuild and overcome the Nazi period." The framers decreed that the Bundestag, or parliament, could not oust a Chancellor without first choosing a successor. That has helped prevent a return of the political chaos that brought the Nazis to power in the 1930s...
...major trading partner, when it would have been economic suicide to consider switching to metric. In fact, it was precisely such arguments that torpedoed Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson's proposal that the U.S. adopt a decimal-based system in 1790. A study 31 years later by his successor, John Quincy Adams, was similarly unpersuasive. But in 1866, Congress, charged by the Constitution with establishing the nation's weights and measures, declared the metric system valid for "contracts, dealings or court proceedings," and in 1893 officially defined the foot, pound and inch in metric equivalents...
Just who might be Powell's successor was not settled at week's end. Chief Justice William Rehnquist did not phone White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to inform him of Powell's decision until 9:35 Friday morning, less than an hour before Rehnquist announced the news from the bench on the last day of the court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire...
...Senate. "Even if we make a quality selection, it could well be a tough go," says a Baker aide. Liberal Senators, however, are in a weaker position to stall Reagan's choice than they would have been if Powell had delayed his resignation: the 19 months until Reagan's successor is sworn in would be a long time for the court to operate with only eight Justices...
...moment of silence in public schools. Justices Rehnquist, Byron White and Antonin Scalia want to go further than Powell ever would in approving state practices that foster religion, and O'Connor would like to rewrite the court's standard test for deciding when such practices are constitutional. Powell's successor might make a majority...