Monopolistic control of the main factors of production by a few individuals or corporations can play havoc with market efficiency; and it can also lead to such great concentrations of private power as to offset any argument for property based on freedom, dissent or democracy.
South Dakota's attorney general, Larry Long, said the appeal was largely based on the one dissenting view on the three-judge panel: that the required disclosure was an obvious fact.
Joyce Purnick ("2 More Voices in Dissonance Over Police," Metro Matters column, Aug. 3) emphasizes politics over substance by characterizing the United States Commission on Civil Rights as being in "sharp disagreement" over its report "Police Practices and Civil Rights in New York City," based on a dissenting statement submitted by two of the commission's eight members.
He argued that his dissent was based on feasibility, and the impossibility of towns solving a larger statewide question.
In many cases his dissent was based on the tenth amendment and the right of states to determine their own affairs.
According to Semyon Gluzman, abuse of psychiatry to suppress dissent is based on condition of psychiatry in a totalitarian state.
In the Soviet Union, a systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place and was based on the interpretation of political dissent as a psychiatric problem.
This must be, I believe, based on "hawks" allowing for the dissent upon which democracy is built, and it must be based upon "critics" recognizing that their credibility must be based on explicit support for the State of Israel.
Their dissent was based on empirical evidence of the existence of patients with non-fluent aphasia without damage to Broca's area.
Following the oral argument, the Chief Justice assigned Justice John Paul Stevens to write the majority opinion and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. asked Justice Thurgood Marshall to write the minority or dissenting opinion, based on the initial count of the justices' views.
