Word: anti-federalist
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This all suggests that if voters are serious about change, craving a new kind of politics, then they can't stop with the White House: Capitol Hill will also need a makeover. Members of Congress were never meant to have tenure; the more anti-Federalist of the founders wouldn't have wanted a government that required full-time, much less lifelong, service. Lawmakers usually pitched in for a few years upholstering the work of the framers, then went back to their plantations or law practices. This model of the citizen-legislator held for about 100 years, until government began...
...prospects for the government are mixed at best. On the one hand, conservative court members might bridle at anti-federalist infringement on states' rights to execute prisoners. On the other hand, the conservatives are firm believers in expanded presidential powers. The left, similarly, is torn between supporting American compliance with international law, but not wanting to affirm executive branch control over its application...
...worth noting, in case anyone thought Scalia was applying for charter membership in the new, anti-Federalist Society group being started up by Georgetown University law professor Peter Rubin and a few others, that Scalia was in the dissent in the first two cases and in the majority in the third. So though he is sometimes jokingly known as "Let 'Em Go Nino" for certain rulings he's made in the criminal area, the emphasis is on "jokingly." In a handful of cases - most notably last year's Apprendi v. New Jersey, in which he sided with the majority...
Amidst chocolate chips, apple cider and Samuel Adams beer, about five students each week meet with Mather House Tutor Richard John '81 to debate Constitutional issues and Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments...
...Conservative leader Joe Clark's minority government after only nine months. But among the provincial premiers, not one belongs to a provincial Liberal party. In Quebec, the federal Liberals' stronghold, Levesque holds forth as the second-most popular politician--behind Trudeau--and the provincial leader determined to lead the anti-federalist camp. In a strange fashion, Canada has demonstrated checks and balances without a constitution...