Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Supreme Court has established that symbolic political acts ?such as displaying a red flag or wearing black armbands?come under First Amendment protection. Yet it has sidestepped the issue of whether laws specifically forbidding abuse of the American flag are valid. Says Burt Neuborne of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Our position is that any person attempting to express a political idea is protected by the First Amendment. The flag is entitled to no protection. Certainly the burning or mutilating of the flag will affect some people's sensibilities, but it should not be the basis for a criminal...
...complete integration. When Nixon made his March 24 desegregation statement, he drew a line between segregation sanctioned by official policy (de jure) and that resulting from segregated housing patterns (de facto). Nixon has long been opposed to busing purely for the purpose of integration. The firing of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Education Commissioner James Allen, both strong advocates of integration, has made it clear that the Administration's objectives are limited. Only last week, in a Supreme Court case involving schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C., the Justice Department supported a lower court decision that...
...state would fulfill the need for a sphere of nonviolence. But if the sovereignty of the state is limited too sharply, if all political groups can move out of the existing politico-legal framework, then the state will lack the power to intervene on behalf of the oppressed. The civil rights progress since 1957 has come through purposeful state coercion. While letting group pluralism run amok, Walzer should have affirmed the duties of power-the responsibility of the state to preserve itself and the nation, and to provide for the common welfare...
Walzer proposes ground rules for the corporate revolutionaries. Whenever corporate strife leads to violence against the state, the militants should exercise real caution. The liberal state, after all, benefits by democratizing the internal politics of the corporation. If officials remember that civil order and corporate authority rarely are equivalent, they can disengage themselves from a particular piece of social oppression. Liberalism, once again, is seen as retreat or strategic withdrawal. But the protection of civil disobedience depends on the state's ability to respond to changing communal values. It depends on the state's responsibility to power being commensurate with...
Wary of the student left, Walzer would defend the university against revolutionary violence. He notes students enjoy immense civil and personal liberties without parallel among workers. Contradicting his earlier sentiments, he would presumably question their right to feel oppressed...