Word: consents
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WALZER'S political universe is existential and consensual. He takes the Lockean consent-of-the-governed (if not quite the social contract) as a real and serious matter. This seriousness focuses the essays on a procedural rather than substantive ethics. As a tool of analysis, consensual theory can say little about those whose consent is tacit. A silent majority is negative data. Walzer necessarily concentrates on those whose moral initiatives are obvious and visible, as with the radical or dissenting intellectual. Inevitably, and perhaps for the best, he describes a political world as confronted by people like himself...
...expected to go along, and even if it did, the President would surely veto the bill. Yet the issue is not meaningless. What is really at stake is a highly political proposition: whether the Senate will in effect censure the President for taking military action in Cambodia without its consent. Nor is congressional impatience with the Administration's explanations of its war policy limited to the Senate doves. The House voted overwhelmingly (223-101) last week to send its own twelve-man fact-finding team to "study all aspects of U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia" and to report...
...Harris reports that 50% of the public believe that the decision was a correct one, while 43% say that they have "serious doubts." He also finds that 54% of the people think that it was not "proper and constitutional for the President to order troops into Cambodia without the consent of Congress." Forty-nine percent regard the move as having "divided" Americans more than before: 43% disagree. On one point, feelings were not ambiguous: even after the Kent State killings, only 27% express "sympathy" with student protests against the Cambodia action; 52% "condemn" such demonstrations. While 53% oppose the notion...
...Kilbridge is delaying the formation of any committee until everyone leaves Cambridge in June. After requesting a formal state-ment from HGSDA Council President Harry Cobb before making an appointment, he insisted on faculty approval. Kilbridge has also expressed doubts about establishing a fact-finding committee without the express consent of the University President and the Corporation...
Some Faculty members understand this, but they are a tiny minority. Charles G. Gross, lecturer on Psychology. proposed at Tuesday's meeting that no portion of the CRR resolution be effective until ratified by a student referendum. "A law to be effective must depend on the consent of the governed," Gross told the Faculty. "It shocks and dismays me that the Faculty seems unaware that these mechanisms are totally unacceptable to the majority of students-not just to the far left...