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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, April 6, 1973
Our educational system
continues to struggle with the
awesome task of complying
with Federal court orders and
HEW directives which seek to
force children to be bused out of
their neighborhoods to achieve
"racial balance" in the
classrooms.
Recently, I took strong ex
ception to the majority report
filed by the Senate Select
Committee on Equal
Educational Opportunity which
characterized "racial balance"
and “busing" as "misleading
issues." I did so, because I felt
that the majority of the select
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ments to the Constitution, and,
consequently, has been referred
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Subcommittee on Constitutional
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Amendments.'
For millions of school
children and their parents, and
indeed for teachers and school
administrators, this is a matter
of the foremost importance.
committee accepted
unquestioningly what are, in my
opinion, some of the greatest
dangers to constitutional
government and individual
freedom in America. At issue is
the unconstitutional expansion
of Federal judicial authority
pursuant to a misguided in
terpretation of the Equal
Protection Clause of the 14Ui
Amendment and the unlawful
interference by Federal
agencies with respect to the
public schools of this country.
On March 23rd, I also urged
Senator Bayh, as Chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Sub
committee on Constitutional
Amendments, to conduct
hearings on several proposals
introduced in the 93rd Congress
to amend the Constitution with
respect to forced busing of
public school students. In my
letter to the Chairman on that
date, I referred specifically to
S. J. Res. 28, introduced by
Senator Allen and me, and S. J.
Res. 9, S. J. Res. 14, S. J. Res. 35
and 36, S. J. Res. 47, S. J. Res.
62, all of which seek to forbid
forced busing of students to
achieve "racial balance.”
I suggested that the chairman
consider these facts: “Hiere is
considerable evidence that
Americans of all races have
become greatly distressed over
recent fMeral court rulings and
federal agency decisions
requiring massive busing of
school children in order to
achieve ‘racial balance’ in the
public schools. These rulings
and decisions have imposed
terrible hardships on millions of
innocent children who have
literally become pawns of
judicial tyranny and heartless
bureaucracy. As a con
sequence, many members of
Congress have introduced
legislation to remedy this
situation. Some of this
legislation proposed amend-
As a sponsor of one of the
proposals to amend the Con
stitution, and as a member of
the subcommittee on Con
stitutional Amendments, I
strongly urged Chairman Bayh
to sch^ule hearings on these
proposals as soon as possible.
In my opinion, these
proposals merit a full and fair
consideration by the Congress
without delay.
I suggested in my letter to the
Chairman that if the Sub
committee did not plan to
conduct such hearings that he
advise Chairman Eastland of
the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee so that the ftdl Com
mittee can take action to
schedule hearings on this vital
legislation.
Senator Eastland has now
announced that the full
Judiciary Committee will hold
hearings on these measures in
April.
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