Word: amendment
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...American political process. For the most part, they were not old enough to back up their beliefs with ballots. Now, displaying the same kinetic enthusiasm that the kids did during the campaign, a youthful movement called LUV ("Let Us Vote") is spear heading a drive to amend the Constitution to enfranchise 18-year-olds...
Friendly, who is often mentioned as one of Richard Nixon's leading candidates for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, would like to see a constructive debate over the amendment, "free from the compulsion of precedent and the cacophony of cliches." In a recent series of lectures at the University of Cincinnati Law School, Friendly tried to start the debate by proposing that the U.S. amend the amendment-or at least the self-incrimination provision that states that no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...
...ROTC courses were withdrawn, what would become of ROTC at Harvard? There is no specific legal requirement that ROTC courses be granted academic credit towards the A.B. degree. Though the contracts specify that academic credit is to be granted, there is no legal reason why the contracts cannot be amended. It has in fact proved possible to amend the Army contract to waive, in a given year and with the permission of the Secertary of the Army, the requirement that 100 members be enrolled in the basic course whenever the basic course is given...
...would be one of those cataclysms that drives the Congress to action. In the same way that three assassinations and civil rights marches on the scale of Selma led to long-talked-about legislation, the buying-and-selling-votes catastrophe in the House would scare up enough initiative to amend the Constitution to elect the President by popular majority...
Capricious Phrases. The due process clauses of the Fifth and 14th Amend ments have been particularly mangled, he feels. In the past, a majority of the Court has often used due process, said Black, to "strike down laws which Justices found to be 'unreasonable,' 'arbitrary,' 'capricious,' or 'contrary to a fundamental sense of civilized justice.' What, for example, do the phrases 'shock the conscience' or 'offend the community's sense of fair play and decency' mean? I submit that these expressions impose no limitations or restrictions whatever...