Word: consensusâ
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Part of the reason for the zigzag effect is that Burger has been less adept than Warren was in building consensus???or even promoting amity?among the nine jurists. Stories about bickering behind the bench have been surfacing regularly. Promoting harmony would not be easy for any Chief Justice now because of the court's delicate ideological balance. There are three consistent conservatives (Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist), three liberals (Douglas, Brennan, Marshall) and three swing men who are often unpredictable (White, Stewart, Powell...
...style, it can be summed up as a search for balance and order?a goal that runs the risk of ambiguity, of settling for surface rather than substance. His program for the church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus???a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble in person, he is eager to preserve the prestige of his office?an aim that sometimes leads urn to empty or overly ambitious gestures. Within the past two weeks, the Pauline...
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