Word: compeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization dedicated to the overthrow of U.S. democracy, the Communist Party of the U.S. has taken abundant advantage of the legal protection that democracy provides. Ever since 1950, when the Internal Security Act went into effect, the Government has been trying to compel the party to register as a "Communist action organization" and furnish lists of its members, income sources and expenditures. During all that time, invoking its rights under the U.S. Constitution, the Communist Party has successfully fended off wave after wave of Justice Department lawyers...
...state Supreme Court ruled that the law violated the state constitution, which forbids the legislature to set a "special" interest rate applicable only to specific kinds of transactions. Any seller who had charged more than 9% on an installment sale, said the court, forfeited the legal right to compel the purchaser to pay. The legislature hastily passed a substitute law, with altered rates and revised wording, but a few weeks ago the Supreme Court struck down that effort...
...sense with his phrasing: "It was I who gave you hungry mouths in all your cities." And in Micah 6:16, where the King James has the Lord meaninglessly warning "that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing," Phillips has the sensible "and they compel me to bring you to ruin, and make your inhabitants an object of scorn...
Gideon shows that the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment now appears to compel the states to apply the guarantees of the Constitution's Bill of Rights in toto. Justice Harlan alone expressed serious reservations regarding the legality and wisdom of this principle...
...pupils in general were academically behind every other elementary school in town. The board, nobly it thought, got a city-wide vote to build a fine new Lincoln on the same spot. Negro parents countered with a federal suit on then-novel grounds: it is just as unconstitutional to compel Negroes to attend a de facto segregated school in the North as a de jure segregated school in the South...