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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, April 20, 1973
The American people are
rightly demanding that
Congress take new action to end
forced busing of public
schoolchildren.
Last week, in a Senate
Judiciary hearing on this issue,
I urged the Committee to
support S. J. Res. 28, a
resolution which Senator Allen
of Alabama and I introduced on
January 23, 1973. The
resolution, which would have to
be approved by two-thirds of the
House and Senate and ratifi^
by three-fourths of the States,
seeks to end busing to achieve
“racial balance” and prevent
Federal Courts and bureaucrats
from practicing tyranny on
helpless children.
1 have been reluctant to ad
vocate alterati(H)s to the Con
stitution of the United States.
History has proven it to be one
of the most wisely drafted
documents of all time, llie
framework of government it
establishes and the protection of
individual liberty it in
corporates have served our
people well. It is only because of
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respect to the public schools
that I feel compelled to ad
vocate this amendment.
What has happened is that
Federal Courts, including the
Supreme Court, and F^eral
agencies have given an un
justified interpretation to the
“equal protection clause” of the
14th Amendment. As a con
sequence, the adoption of a
constitutional amendment may
now be a prerequisite for
restoring freedom to America’s
schoolchildren and for
eliminating judicial tyranny
with respect to our public
schools.
In North Carolina and in
many other States—north,
south, east, and west-
thousands of students have been
ordered to board buses daily to
achieve some magical, racial-
mixing formula to satisfy the
whims and caprices of
misguided Federal judges and
bureaucrats. This is absurd
because two decades after the
Brown decision. Federal Courts
and the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare are now
insisting that race be used as
the basis for pupU assignment.
Ironically, these orders and
decrees seek to use racial
quotas to effectuate a con
stitutional principle which
forbids Government to treat
people differently on account of
their race.
Most Americans have waited
and hoped that the Supreme
Court would r^ain its judicial
sanity and reject lower Federal
Court orders which impose
massive busing and racially
based pupil assignment plans
on helpless parents, students,
and public school officials. They
have waited in vain.
The people, according to
every public opinion poll that I
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be an end to a practice that is
doing irreparable harm to the
public schools. Accordingly
Senator Allen and I have
proposed an amendment to the
Constitution to absolutely
prohiUt any court and any
Government agency from
assigning schoolchildren to or
requiring them to attend a
particular school on account of
race, creed, or color. The
amendment would constitute a
supporting provision in the
Constitution for the true in
terpretation of the “equal
protection clause” of the 14th
Amendment, namely, that
Government is forbidden to use
race, creed or color in con
nection with its official policies
and programs.
I {dso intend to support any
other legislative efforts to
prevent forced busing which
has so unsettled our citizens
during recent years. I shall
continue my long standing
oposition to judicial and
bureaucratic usurpation of the
authority lawfully vested in
local school boards.
I hq>e that the Committee
will pay heed to the voices of the
people who cry out for
deliverance from this
outrageous tyranny.
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