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...press. "The Constitution," he said, "is not a self-executing document . . . If you went back to the original understanding of our ancestors, back in the early years of the 19th century, you would find that their understanding of this clause and the Constitution in their judgment allowed them to enact the Alien and Sedition laws. And if those laws were still on the books, Richard Nixon would still be President of the U.S. and Spiro Agnew would still be Vice President, and all of you people would probably be in prison...
...sense, then, our monarchs are in fact our subjects, hostage to the dreams we wish them to enact. Axel, the wan hero dreamed up by the French symbolist Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, famously suggested that he and his fellow aristocrats leave the messy business of living to their servants; these days, we would just as soon leave it to our monarchs. We demand of them, moreover, a double role: they must be godlike mortals, fallible gods. Upon peering into their closets, we wish not only to marvel at the gowns but also to revel in the skeletons that hang...
...Hart wanted so much to create a new America, to enact a new vision, why ^ did he roll grenades under his own tent flaps? There is something in his Arctic eyes, his rhetoric, that gives a chill...
...attempt to prevent the proposal from becoming a rule, Dukakis will "write to his fellow governors to ask them for support," said Akey. Dukakis will also "work with the congressional delegation from Massachusetts to have the congress enact legislation to prohibit the rule change...
...form of government limitation. Now the total is 40% and, observes Aho, the "tendency is definitely for more." On the other hand, Claude Barfield, coordinator of trade policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, lauds the Administration for its continuing antiprotectionist restraint in the face of pressure to enact much more sweeping measures. The latest White House trade initiative, he points out, is a "balancing act between politics and economics. They've played this game with a fair amount of success...