Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maryland's fifth Republican Governor in 180 years, Agnew proved to be an eminently competent and imaginative chief executive. In contrast to some of his predecessors, he was positively revolutionary. Enjoying a year-long honeymoon with the Democrat-dominated state legislature, he pushed through a graduated income tax and obtained passage of one of the nation's toughest state antipollution laws. He also won repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings...
...last week showed that millions of U.S. union members are turning to Wallace, with 50% declaring for him in the South, 12% in the rest of the nation. Humphrey's labor support has fallen correspondingly, to only 42%. Since Gallup began surveying union people in 1936, no other Democrat has ever done so poorly with blue-collar workers. There is a good chance, too, that union men-as well as the legions of other middle- and lower-middle-class people at whom Wallace's appeal is aimed-will be able to vote for him in all 50 states...
Almost from the outset, the collegiate arrangement proved troublesome. In the election of 1800, Democrat-Republican Thomas Jefferson drew the same number of electoral votes (73) as his vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr. The divided House took 36 ballots to resolve the deadlock and place Jefferson in office. The 12th Amendment, requiring separate electoral votes for the offices of President and Vice President, was adopted four years later. The system has not changed since...
...Harvard freshman I was an innocent rationalist and Wilsonian Democrat. Even while I was an undergraduate, and with the generous enthusiasm of my tutor Harold Laski to fortify me, the influence of the late Irving Babbitt began to undermine the foundations of that belief...
...appeal for change came first from Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, who rose to denounce the national conventions as "antiquated and undemocratic." He proposed the formation of a 30-man bipartisan commission, including Congressmen, candidates' representatives and presidential appointees, to hammer out a reform program to be presented next August. The reforms could take any of several shapes, suggested Nelson: a national presidential primary, a streamlined convention system, or a combination of both...