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...people.” But the duty of the judge is to be objective and uninfluenced by the “will of the people.” In interpreting an admittedly ambiguous area of the Constitution, the judges did right to concern themselves with a principled, correct interpretation rather than be motivated or frightened by the likely public response. And the interpretation they chose–the protection of minority rights–is not only acceptable, but laudable. A final criticism of the Court’s decision is that a majority of Californians do not approve...
...think it’s a brilliant strategy on their part to just try to neutralize negative image,” Zafran says. “If they can lodge seeds of doubt in Democrat minds that maybe the Democratic ideology isn’t the only correct way to think, then they’ve done their job. That’s the type of outreach that’s going to win over people one person at a time...
Kinsley is correct to say we need leaders brave enough to practice astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear. But his example of a leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill...
...nation-building.” In January 2009, he will leave his successor with every single one of his disastrous legacies, including two very real wars on the ground, an angry and resurgent Russia, and hostility overseas. Our next President will have to not only correct Bush’s errors—a Herculean task in and of itself—but will also have to restore America’s standing in the world...
Hawaii's first Constitutional Convention was organized in 1968 to correct problems with state legislative voting districts - and ended up giving public workers the right to strike. Ten years later, the islands' second ConCon began with no particular agenda, just a feeling in the post-Watergate era that Hawaii's government needed to be more accountable to its people. Nevertheless, it resulted in 34 separate amendments - more than 1,000 individual changes to Hawaii's state constitution - that included the addition of the untranslated phrase, "Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono" in the constitution's preamble...