Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombastically bragging that their states' mandates in the matter of casting of electoral votes need not be obeyed. At this very moment one of the South's truly civilized and gracious cities, New Orleans, is torn by ugly racial strife openly encouraged by those sworn to uphold the laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles and we would buy their textiles. Barley would go for bourbon...
...South has recognized both the idea of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and of the Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high court to interpret the law it is supposed to uphold. According to Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, the doctrine of nullification embraced by the South since the origin of the states' rights argument "is no different legally from the right of interposition which Louisiana now claims...
Dead or alive, Assassin Yamaguchi was not good for many votes. But, as a martyr, Yamaguchi might yet inspire fresh violence from the small but dangerous band of Japanese who share his fanatical right-wing views and uphold the prewar tradition of political assassination. Last week a group of them went to the jail, presented the boy's parents with a burial coat, kimono and belt, then escorted the body of their hero home...
...order to uphold their policies, Tambo said, they were forced to deprive the opposition, and particularly The African National Congress of all means of political expression. Their recent actions, such as the Sharpeville massacre, are creating widespread unrest among the Blacks and the very strong possibilities of further bloodshed, he declared...
Nixon and Lodge are experienced statesmen who are superbly equipped to uphold America's position in the world. All other issues are of secondary importance...