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...THAT'S THE fate of the iconoclast-you can be used to defend precisely the evils you are attacking, mused the R?. Hon Richard Crossman, Cabinet minister and former Oxford classicist, "It's the bump of irreverence which saves you." So broke off the most subersive sentence ever uttered by a Godkin Lecturer as its author paced around his suite in the Dana Reed House last Wednesday. It indicated the agnostic flavor so prominent in this year's Godkin series, modestly entitled "Bagehot Revisited...
...bump of irreverence, accorded only to Walter Bagehot and J. Kenneth Galbraith is Crossman's highest accolade for a mortal. He apears at first to be a genial but waspish don. He has attached his name to a string of monographs and collected essays- Plato Today. The God That Failed, New Fabian Essays. and The Government and the Governed. His current identity as one of the most powerful politicians in the Wilson Cabinet pokes through the do??sb mannerisms: the gray hair parts in the middle, the glasses slide down his nose, the fingers clench in good podium style...
Appropriately enough, then, Richard Crossman has become a power theorist. The Godkin Lectures glorified the consolidation in the British polity, but they cast a wistful sidelong glance at the American courts and Constitution. "The British need more rule of law, not less." Corpsman wished to clarify the advantages of the federal system and written constitutions. Laws and courts could defend the public from a grasping bureaucracy...
...Crossman spoke from experience. "After 19 years as a backbencher, I was very discouraged. You go to Parliament only to become a member of the government-and if you're not, that's that...
...Crossman congratulated the democratic electorate for its "bovine stupidity." The party, not the apathetic public, introduces militant ideas-"although it often is just the militancy of yesterday...