Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...court officer visited the Beijing home of Chen Ziming's elderly parents late last month and presented them with an official notice. A branch of the Beijing procuratorate court, the document said, has approved the formal arrest of Chen Ziming on charges of "inciting counterrevolutionary propaganda" and "subversion." A trial could take place as early as this month...
...Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." In Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green light from the legislature. By contrast, Congress has formally declared war only five times, most recently in 1941. Nothing in the Constitution, Gerson contended, says Congress has to declare war before...
...person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that the framers deliberately rejected any scheme that would give the Chief Executive the power to make the basic decision in favor...
Much of the stumbling and incoherence that gets in the way of effective communication these days has its origin in our failure early on to develop respect for thought processes. The way thoughts are converted into language calls for no less attention in formal schooling than geography or mathematics or biology or any of the other systematic subjects. Squeezing essential meaning into arbitrary and unworkable time limits leads to glibness on one end and exasperation on the other. We need not put up with either...
...editorial "The Lone Ranger" on December 5 accuses President Bush of violating the Constitution by not getting formal Congressional approval for his policies in the Persian Gulf. This accusation both lacks legal grounding and harms the prospect of achieving our goal of a peaceful resolution of this conflict...