Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...orders, religious and civil, one must be theoretically and effectively superior to the other. One of the two must be the underlying, ultimate referent and tribunal. Whenever a society considers a fundamental separation of the two to exist, the civil is necessarily the superior...
Thomas A. Donovan, Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., in his thesis, "The Status of the Church in American Civil Law and Canon Law," argues that free religious expression in America (public worship, ecclesiastical property holding, etc.) does not flow from the largesse of the civil order but from divine sanction and radical incompetence of the civil order in this matter...
...spiritual order enjoys a fundamental independence only when all civil dynamics flow from it in a union of civil and spiritual orders. Its radical freedom lies in the union of the orders. The radical freedom of the civil order lies in its "separation" from the spiritual order. Freedom in union vs. freedom in separation...
...last week, Sweden's Premier Olof Palme called for some way "to counteract technology's multiplication of the power to destroy." British Prime Minister Edward Heath warned in the same forum: "It may be that in the decade ahead of us, civil war, not war between nations, will be the main danger we will face." During a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, Richard Nixon said that the ubiquitous terrorism was "an international disease...
...constitutional limits, knowing full well that to scrap the constitution à la Brazil would only play into the terrorists' hands by inviting real disorders. In Ottawa, Trudeau's Cabinet is already drawing up new laws to replace the War Measures Act, so as to permit more effective action against civil disorders. With its May 1968 upheaval in mind, France has beefed up its police force, and enacted a tough new anti-demonstration measure known as the "anti-wrecker's law." Under the law, police can arrest anyone standing in sight of an unlawful demonstration...