Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision was 180° counter to last July's ruling by a three-judge panel in Atlanta whose effect was to uphold the Public Accommodations section. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear an appeal from the Atlanta decision. For the time being, however, the Birmingham ruling is a plus for Barry, since it tends to confirm his doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights...
...will convene in Washington. The MFDP supporters will attempt to get it seated by using two lines of attack. They will claim, first, that the Mississippi Democratic Party was discriminatory in its selection of delegates. And, second, they will point out all delegates to the convention are pledged to uphold the ideals of the Party; many Mississippi delegates are known Goldwater supporters...
...civil rights law. Goldwater flushed, but held his temper. "When you use that argument," he said, "you are questioning my honesty, and I should resent it but I won't." Parker insisted that he was doing no such thing. Said Goldwater: "Well, you are, sir. I will uphold that law because it is the voice of the majority. And if I'm your President, I will do something about this in more ways than the law." Thus, during his Platform Committee appearance, and indeed throughout his entire performance in San Francisco last week, Goldwater was the old Barry...
Rolleston's prospects of winning seem slight. For one thing, he is fighting a law that got the most painstaking constitutional examination by a lawyer-dominated Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution just as fervently as the Supreme Court. What is nonetheless admirable is Rolleston's decision to test the law in court rather than to break it simply because he dislikes it. If his action sets a new tone for Southern resistance, it is good news...
...Grecian Room, presented him to the delegates. Wearing a PERCY FOR GOVERNOR button, Goldwater rambled for a few minutes about the need for party unity and harmony, especially mentioned his civil rights vote, and said: "I will accept the civil rights plank of the platform, and as President will uphold and enforce the civil rights law. As President, I would want an Attorney General who would enforce the law. My Attorney General would uphold the law or I would get another one." He said that segregation is "foolishness in these times, just as anti-Semitism or anti-Catholicism are foolish...