Nomination of William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on the Confirmation of William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General of the United States, June 4, 5, and 18, 1985, Band 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 1037 Seiten |
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... law protecting in- stitutionalized persons from violations of their civil rights ? If the Justice Department is so hell - bent to enforce the law be- cause that is their concept of the law and must intervene in cases , then why isn't ...
... law protecting in- stitutionalized persons from violations of their civil rights ? If the Justice Department is so hell - bent to enforce the law be- cause that is their concept of the law and must intervene in cases , then why isn't ...
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... Civil Rights Commission . The House passed - over the objection of the administration - passed the Civil Rights Act of 1984 375 to 32 , clearly a signal that somebody is getting the wrong mes- sage in the Justice Department . The Bob ...
... Civil Rights Commission . The House passed - over the objection of the administration - passed the Civil Rights Act of 1984 375 to 32 , clearly a signal that somebody is getting the wrong mes- sage in the Justice Department . The Bob ...
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... Civil Rights has been marked by a faithful effort to enforce civil rights laws as Con- gress intended those laws to be enforced , and by an unswerving commitment to equal justice under law for all of our citizens . There are still some ...
... Civil Rights has been marked by a faithful effort to enforce civil rights laws as Con- gress intended those laws to be enforced , and by an unswerving commitment to equal justice under law for all of our citizens . There are still some ...
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... Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice that raise legitimate concerns , and this hearing will go a long ... law , as determined by Congress and the courts , re- gardless of political pressure or personal opinion . In your case , ...
... Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice that raise legitimate concerns , and this hearing will go a long ... law , as determined by Congress and the courts , re- gardless of political pressure or personal opinion . In your case , ...
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... Civil Rights Act , the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Per- sons Act , section 504 , the Education Amendments of 1972 , the Com- petition in Contracting Act , and other civil rights laws . Again , as far as I am concerned , these are ...
... Civil Rights Act , the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Per- sons Act , section 504 , the Education Amendments of 1972 , the Com- petition in Contracting Act , and other civil rights laws . Again , as far as I am concerned , these are ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 221 - You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
Seite 174 - Contrary to the allegations of some opponents of this title, there is nothing in it that will give any power to the Commission or to any court to require hiring, firing, or promotion of employees in order to meet a racial 'quota' or to achieve a certain racial balance.
Seite 14 - Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
Seite 323 - Where racial discrimination is concerned, "the [district] court has not merely the power but the duty to render a decree which will so far as possible eliminate the discriminatory effects of the past as well as bar like discrimination in the future.
Seite 834 - I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Seite 17 - The vesting of the executive power in the President was essentially a grant of the power to execute the laws. But the President alone and unaided could not execute the laws. He must execute them by the assistance of subordinates.
Seite 258 - In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Seite 17 - As he is charged specifically to take care that they be faithfully executed, the reasonable implication, even in the absence of express words, was that as part of his executive power he should select those who were to act for him under his direction in the execution of the laws.
Seite 817 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
Seite 325 - By mandating the hiring of those who have been the object of discrimination, quota relief promptly operates to change the outward and visible signs of yesterday's racial distinctions and thus, to provide an impetus to the process of dismantling the barriers, psychological or otherwise, erected by past practices 386.