Tag Archives: government

The Rove Presidency

From the Atlantic’s article, The Rove Presidency: “Rove has always cast himself not merely as a campaign manager but as someone with a mind for policy and for history’s deeper currents—as someone, in other words, with the wherewithal not just to exploit the political landscape but to reshape it. At the Christian Science Monitor lunch, [...]

The American Interest

From A Concert of Democracies: “The Bush Administration and its critics thus offer, respectively, 19th- and 20th-century foreign policies for a 21st-century world. We can and must do better than that.”

The Liberty Amendment

From The Liberty Amendment: “The Liberty Amendment will give back to the Constitution its full force and effect in limiting the powers and activities of the Federal Government and restoring those powers reserved to the States and to the people. The Liberty Amendment, proposed, could become the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.” Don’t know if [...]

Can People Handle the Power?

Dave, over at This Is Not News, is taking a couple of political science seminars this semester, and it has him asking, when it comes to democracy, can people handle the power? I think it is a very important question that any struggling democracy (such as ours) has to ask itself every once in a [...]

A People’s Convention to Revise the Constitution

[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site; this particular post was a homework assignment for a U.S. Government class]
Representatives of the State of Harmony, seeking to devise institutions that will maximize pluralist democracy, hereby proclaim the desire to achieve the following objective:

Whereas the Constitution of the United States, as ratified and adopted in 1788 [...]

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