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Landrum-Griffin 1965-1966: A Calculus Of Democratic Values, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Landrum-Griffin 1965-1966: A Calculus Of Democratic Values, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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One of the happier ironies of recent labor history can be found in the impetus given union democracy by the Landrum- Griffin Act. At the time the Act was passed, the thinking of disinterested observers had not yet crystallized on the merits of running a union's affairs democratically. It is probably fair to say that the main push in Congress for Landrum-Griffin and, particularly, its Title, "Bill of Rights" came from a conservative coalition which was less concerned with promoting the individual rights of working people than with blunting the effectiveness of labor organizations. There is hardly anything unique in …
Evolving Judicial Attitudes Toward Local Government Land Use Control, Terrance Sandalow
Evolving Judicial Attitudes Toward Local Government Land Use Control, Terrance Sandalow
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The year 1967 begins the second half-century of zoning in the United States. The first comprehensive zoning ordinance was adopted by New York City in 1916. In the fifty years that have elapsed, zoning has become, notwithstanding a growing disenchantment with it on the part of planners, the most widely employed technique of land use control in the United States. At the present time only Houston, of all the major cities in the United States, lacks a zoning ordinance. And, though I have not obtained precise figures, we are all familiar with the increasingly large per centage of small municipalities, …