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...Franklin Roosevelt was apparently prepared to do so "to protect the economic and political security of this nation" in 1935, when the court was expected to rule that holders of Government bonds were entitled to payment in gold. But the court surprised him by voting, 5 to 4, to uphold his position. Andrew Jackson in 1832 sharply objected to a ruling that federal authorities, rather than the state of Georgia, should take jurisdiction over the case of a missionary to the Cherokee Indians who was imprisoned by the state. Jackson reputedly said, "Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has made...
...calmly challenged the Chief Justice on his interpretation of legal precedents. He urged the court not to shy away from a decision that might have profound political implications nor to shun its duty to decide a basic constitutional issue. He asked the Justices to "fully, explicitly, decisively?and definitively?uphold Judge Sirica's decision...
...face of Monday's act of international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence...
...university, said recently, the university has no legal obligation to support Indian students. Steiner also said that under the legal doctrine of laches, a counterpart to the statute of limitations, "it would not be in the public interest, not be in the interest of the law" to uphold the pact...
...importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and the way it chooses to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number-one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...