Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction rates. He likens Nixon to Al Capp's cartoon cop, Fearless Fosdick, accusing him of "playing loose with law and order." Humphrey, in fact, seems determined to personalize the campaign as much as possible by drawing Nixon into direct combat. Last week he charged Nixon with "demagoguery," declaring: "The country doesn't need a wiggler and wobbler...
Most American historians oversimplify the origins of the College when they write that the constitutional draftsmen of 1787 did not trust the people to choose a President directly. In part, the Electoral College plan did emerge as a compromise between the patrician view of government and the belief, shared by James Madison and Gouverneur Morris, that Americans should elect their President directly. Also important, however, was a seamier accommodation with slavery. The Southern states had already forced a provision into the Constitution that permitted three-fifths of their slaves to be tallied in determining their seats in the House...
...Clay threw his support to the runner-up, John Quincy Adams, who had collected 31.9% of the popular vote. Clay's action made Adams President, and by no small coincidence, Clay became Secretary of State. Though Jackson later won two terms in the White House, his demands for direct election by the people were ignored...
...free-world governments grant their Chief Executive a more powerful mandate. Save for Argentina, Finland, India, Portugal and West Germany, which use modified Electoral College systems, democratic nations that have written their constitutions in the years since 1787 have generally avoided the Electoral College compromise in favor of either direct popular election (as in France and Mexico) or a variation on the English parliamentary system...
...also captures youth's ardent declarations with an intimacy that would be embarrassing in a conventional novel. It is precisely here that his rhythmic style-repetitive, insistent yet detached -triumphs. Instead of direct dialogue, he employs a wincingly accurate blend of external action with internal assessment, outer posture with private probing. By endlessly circling his characters with his ringed sentences, Berto arrives at the center of meaning that they themselves cannot reach...