Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Lyrically, the songs are either embarrassingly irrelevant or refreshingly naive, depending on how you look at them. Listen carefully to the lyrics. At a time when America is near civil war, can anyone else sing things like "my life is growing like a big old tree" and be serious...
President Lincoln attempted to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus by executive order during the first two years of the Civil War. When that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Congress expressly authorized him to suspend it, with safeguards, for the duration...
...Canadian government, in an unprecedented move designed to quell Quebec's secessionist Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), yesterday suspended civil liberties and arrested over 250 FLQ members and sympathizers...
...morning. FLQ representative Robert Lemieux, seeking the release of 23 separatists convicted or awaiting trial for terrorism, dismissed the final government offer to free five prisoners in exchange for Cross and Laporte as "an incredible mockery." One hour later, at 4 a. m., the government issued its proclamation suspending civil liberties and outlawing the FLQ. Lemieux was among those arrested yesterday...
...control of riots. Hearings must determine the extent to which military intelligence units should be permitted to watch controversial political figures on the theory that "agitators" cause riots, and the extent to which the Army through the CIAD should be expected to analyze political and social aspects of civil disturbances. Finally, the hearings must define the Army's authority to monitor civilian politics in light of such principles as the civilian control of the military, state and civilian primacy in law enforcement, the decentralization of intelligence duties, and obedience to the constitutional scheme of the separate branches of government sharing...