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...contested powers . . . the states and not the Supreme Court are the final arbiter." This does not mean that Eastland believes in nullification. In January he told a Citizens' Council audience in South Carolina, historic home of nullification, that the South Carolina Nullification Act of 1832 was constitutionally unsound, and added, "no one contends that a state can nullify an act which Congress has the power to pass or to nullify any of the constitutional and legal powers of the Federal Government." What he does advocate is something he calls "authentic acts of interposition." Interposition, as Eastland interprets it, means...
Your implied opposition, in your editorial of February 27, to the sale of arms to Israel is quite unsound. The argument that the sale of arms to Israel may precipitate an arms race ignores the fact that Israel does not seek to match the Arab quantitative arms superiority. All that Israel desires is to purchase arms which can compare qualitatively with the weapons which the Arabs are receiving from the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States...
Compared to college administration of scholarship funds, the national Scholorama is financially unsound. If it has any justification, it is in bringing talent to college which would otherwise ignore the opportunity. The evidence indicates that it does this only to a very limited degree...
Beyond the specifically dangerous aspects of the individual bills, they all seek something inherently unsound--to establish state standards for the beliefs of university teachers. These institutions can function best, can only function, when they are free to set their own standards for the conduct of their faculty. State control will stifle the freedom necessary to worthwhile education...
...American evolution from the bottom up was in danger. We found the economy's growth hobbled by successive layers of regulations, controls, subsidies and taxes imposed in past emergencies. We found defense spending being used partly to buy defense, partly as a crutch to support an unsound economy, thereby endangering both. We found an economy out of step with the nation it had to serve...