Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe College Council would veto any RGA proposal to extend parietal hours, Nora Ronhovde '66, president of the Radcliffe Government Association said yesterday...
...emancipation of women." Under the new bill, a married woman for the first time will be able to take a job or open a bank account without her husband's permission. She will have the legal right to help decide where her children can go to school, to veto his plans to sell her property, and retain her own possessions if there is a divorce...
...Constitution as "a vessel out of which meaning is drawn and into which meaning is poured." Vast power to alter that meaning, he pointed out, rested with nine fallible men: "The Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges, free of popular veto, might easily impose their own notions of "justice." He warned repeatedly that diffusion of power is the basic premise of U.S. Government. In public policy, he said (borrowing a phrase from his hero Justice Holmes), "the sovereign prerogative of choice" should always rest with elected compromisers and the people to whom...
...itself. And if the HDC has merely moved from resistance to control to blind faith in organization, it will be worse off than before. But it is unlikely it has. Even after the ratification of the constitution, one faction forced through an amendment that made the membership's veto power a reality. Politics serves a symbolic function in Harvard drama, and that spirit of dissent represents the potential for artistic innovation...
Nancy S. Couturie '65 moved, and it was voted, that voting be at a general membership meeting--although votes by mall would also be accepted--that three-fourths of the membership constitute a quorum, and that a veto of one-half of those voting be sufficient to block any-one's election...