Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amend the Constitution. Last week Senators Wheeler and Bone proposed a Constitutional amendment, providing that if the Supreme Court declared a Federal law unconstitutional, Congress should have the power after the next general election to repass the law over the Supreme Court's "veto" by a two-thirds vote. Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected, possibly in a campaign...
...seven years ago that the U. S. Senate had another great debate on the powers and functions of the Supreme Court, on the question of "property rights v. human rights." Occasion of that debate was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice. He was finally confirmed by vote of 52-to-26. Before that took place those who opposed him thoroughly aired their opinion that he was too closely connected with conservatism and entrenched wealth. Half the Senators who voted against him are now dead or retired, but of those who remain the great majority are today opposed...
...Court and within a year not only did the Court begin to function with new celerity, but there came a number of liberal decisions, several of them by 5-to-4, such as that against Minnesota's "press gag" law, with the new Chief Justice casting the decisive vote...
...charged that the state primaries were the worst in years so far as forgeries, irregularities, and actual fraudulent practices were concerned. Secretary Cook is also the author of "Massachusetts Voter." In 1936 he repeated his 1934 triumph by an even wider margin demonstrating his hold on the independent vote...
Judges of the debate will be Edward H. Hickey '33, L '36, and Dr. Horace A. Rigg '31, the audience casting the third vote in the decision...