Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this admission is that the legislative and executive branches of our government must work out great national questions by themselves without using the Court as a crutch. This condition, Jackson believed, is good. It does, however, imply that if Congress and the President do not exercise their prerogatives with wisdom and restraint, then the Court can do little to save them from the painful consequences...
...course, court action is one way to review laws--as in the case of an appeal to the Supreme Court by 360 citizens asking for the voiding of the Internal Security Act of 1950. But the Court can rule only on a law's constitutionality--not on its wisdom; Congress itself must evaluate the wisdom of its own actions...
...performance of a third junior back emphatically illustrated Jordan's wisdom in not moving Joslin to wing. John (Babe) Simourian scored three of the nine Harvard touchdowns, intercepting a UMass pass and racing 70 yards for one, and grabbing passes from Botsford for two others. The figures for his ball carrying performance are equally impressive--he carried five times for 104 yards and a 21-yard average...
Americans should not look to the Supreme Court for decisions on the wisdom of legislative policies, Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said in the opening address of the three-day Marshall Conference...
...other planets, these men would not be derived from Adam, and one would not be able to understand the logic of the divine plan of man's salvation ... To admit that the divine plan of salvation is illogical is the same as not recognizing the infinite wisdom of God. It is fantastic to suppose that God would place such men on other planets. Remember that the world was created by God for God's glory. What glory would God derive from men deprived of supernatural gifts...