Word: upholding
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Supreme Court Justices [NATION, Oct. 8] are not appointed to further any private political view. Rather, the duty of the high court is to uphold the laws of this country and, as you say, "develop a higher loyalty" than mere politics. That distinction is the reason this nation has been able to remain a democracy...
...Matthew 2, the Three Wise Men seek "the ruler of the Jews" even though Jesus was indisputably a male and the translators later allow Pilate to call him "King of the Jews." In Hebrews 1:3, it is God's "Child," not "Son," who has the power to uphold the universe, which sounds like a weighty responsibility for a juvenile...
...collection of loners? It may just be a game, a casually preferred national image requiring no analysis, like English gentlemen or Latin lovers. It may be a holdover from the country's beginnings. Any institution that starts out with a Declaration of Independence may feel obliged to uphold the standard. The myth may also arise from a logical contradiction in a revolutionary society; that once the revolution is done, every rugged individual must be whittled down to a mere citizen for the revolutionized society to function. Thinking of oneself as a rugged individual may preserve the revolution...
WHILE IT IS an admirable goal to uphold all that the House system was designed for, nevertheless the issue of space has become more pressing than the issue of House spirit. For what kind of House spirit can exist if a majority of students are living in unconscionably crowded conditions...
...switch in time saved nine." Quite possibly influenced by F.D.R.'s election mandate, Justice Owen Roberts changed sides and cast the swing vote to uphold important New Deal acts, including the National Labor Relations Act and a bill establishing Social Security old-age benefits. Another Justice, Willis Van Devanter, one of the conservative "Four Horsemen" who had been most ; resolutely opposed to F.D.R.'s pro" gram, announced his retirement. The New Deal was saved. The court-packing plan died in Congress...