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...thousand dollars a word is a hefty price to pay for any document, but this one is special. Written in 1818 by the 75-year-old Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai Noah, one of America's first Zionists, the letter contains a stirring attack on anti-Semitism and all forms of religious bigotry...
...AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, an often vague political document written nearly two centuries ago, invites controversy. Still, there are certain facets of the polity it sets up we thought had been settled long ago. That is until last week, when Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared that the Supreme Court of the United States was not the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution. In a speech at Tulane University, America's highest-ranking law enforcement official asserted that the Court's decisions were not the supreme law of the land. Only the particular parties involved in cases decided by the Court, he said...
...committed to every period and comma in the document, but I think the basic outline is very solid," said Faculty Council member Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies...
Founded in 1912 by black professionals in the judicial capital of Bloemfontein, the A.N.C. fought against apartheid for decades through rigorously nonviolent means, mostly labor strikes and public service boycotts. In 1955 it joined several other South African civil rights organizations in signing a document called the Freedom Charter, which still serves as its ideological lodestar of record. The charter declares that "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white" and calls for a unified, democratic state governed along color-blind lines. Economic goals are vaguely socialistic, envisioning the nationalization of some industries, including banks...
...final draft of the Philippines' new constitution was presented last week to President Corazon (Cory) Aquino at Malacanang Palace. "Democracy is safe with this constitution," she said after receiving two copies of the 59-page document, one in English, the other in Pilipino. The charter will be put to a nationwide plebiscite...