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Dershowitz's dictum is extreme; outright repeal of conspiracy laws seems unwise. They are needed to stop dangerous plots before they are executed. But eminent scholars do support two basic reforms. For one thing, prosecutors should not be allowed to bring conspiracy charges when the plot has been carried out and the participants can be prosecuted for the very crime they conspired to commit. Second, critics like Yale's Goldstein contend that conspiracy law should be more compatible with the more explicit law of attempts. Under that doctrine, an illegal act must be close to consummation before...
Urban Affairs Expert Edward C. Banfield, author of The Unheavenly City, is reduced to musing on what he concedes are steps available only to an American dictator. Among other things, he would: repeal the minimum-wage laws; encourage "or perhaps even require" teen-agers who do not go to college either to take jobs that are low-paid and unattractive if they are the only ones available, or do military or volunteer service; encourage or even require institutionalization of the highly incompetent poor; and place lower-class "problem families" in closely supervised housing projects...
Abortions are illegal in Maine, although a bill has been introduced to repeal the ban. The governor of Maine stated that he saw nothing illegal in the students' loan fund...
...construction, where inflation has been especially virulent. It urged the National Labor Relations Board to compel building employers and unions to bargain in larger units, so that unions could no longer force inflationary settlements on small local contracting groups one by one. President Nixon, the C.E.D. said, should demand repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires payment of "prevailing" local wages on most federally assisted construction projects. In practice, that really means payment of the highest rate that any union has been able to wring out of any contractor in the area...
...civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee did not repeal the law until...