Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, no lawyer, turning full face against a fellow Democrat. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus: "Ours is a nation founded upon the rule of law. It is shocking to see a governor of one of the states calling out the National Guard, not to uphold the Constitution and orders of the Supreme Court but to defy them. Such action cannot be tolerated. It offends the concept of law on which our society is based...
...Christiansborg Palace, home of the Folketing (Parliament), the 18-year-old princess was formally introduced to the Council of State, and with a gold pen signed an oath to uphold the Danish constitution. Later, as she drove home in a royal coach, crowds jammed the sidewalks to cheer her. They called again and again for her to show herself on the balcony of the royal palace. Flag-waving schoolboys swung into a popular song that ends with the words "because she is so young and pretty," and the venerable Sixtus Harbor Battery boomed out a 21-gun salute...
...dissent, Justice Frankfurter said that to uphold the expatriation act "is to respect the actions of the two branches of our Government directly responsive to the will of the people and empowered under the Constitution to determine the wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts...
Cops & Conservatism. Fact is that Desai has never hesitated to ignore Gandhi's injunctions against violence, when necessary, in order to uphold the law. During the bloody rioting between Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs that racked India in the months before and after independence, Desai's skilled and vigorous handling of his police cut casualties immeasurably. In 1954 U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen publicly declared that Desai's Bombay had been selected as the site of a $30 million Standard Vacuum refinery because of its "remarkable stability...
...crusade began in 1955 when the state legislature passed the famed Broyles law requiring public employees to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath to uphold the U.S. and Illinois Constitutions. Lutheran Andersson decided that the oath was a subtle limitation on an American's freedom to speak his mind. Unlike the hundreds of teachers who agreed with him but still bowed to the law, he flatly refused to sign. "I pledged my allegiance to the United States and to God when I took my citizenship oath in 1932," said he. "Must I then swear loyalty...