Puablic-interest firms crop up on the right; proposed by Lewis Powell, they've won credit with Reagan-Bush judges; suits with agendas

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The growth of conservative legal foundations started with Lewis F. Powell, Jr.'s call for their existence in Aug 1971, two months before his appointment to the US Supreme Court. Initially their influence was modest but the conservative political victories of the last generation have given these groups much influence. Examples include the Washington Legal Foundation, the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Institute for Justice and the Christian Legal Society. The appointment of judges who agreed with these foundations' views on limiting regulation and state accommodation of religion has been helpful.

United States, Innovations, Research institutes, History, Christian Legal Society, Pacific Legal Foundation, Washington Legal Foundation

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School prayer: forbidden by the framers

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The Republican plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit prayer in the public schools must not succeed. Our Founding Fathers had the right idea when they provided for a separation of church and state. Since children are so susceptible to peer pressure, no school prayer could really be voluntary. With the profusion of religious sects in the US, non-denominational prayer is a contradiction in terms. Discord over what was nondenominational would only harm education. Both religion and the state function best when they are independent.

Church and state, Religion in the public schools, Religion in schools

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Dominican Republic eases rules for foreigners: registration of investments in once-restricted or forbidden industries has been simplified

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The Dominican Republic's new Foreign Investment Law improves greatly on the prior rules, opening up many areas of the economy that were previously restricted or forbidden and allowing greater repatriation of profits. It is now easier to register foreign investments, and prior approval from the Central Bank is no longer required for most. However, intellectual property, which is now a permissible capital investment, still needs prior approval. Many financial instruments can also now be registered as capital.

Analysis, Interpretation and construction, Foreign investments, Commercial law, Dominican Republic, Foreign trade promotion

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