Word: federalist
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...recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social priorities. No one wonders why people in a rich nation forgo college or surgery. The solutions to problems are entirely private (in exchange for product placement) and local. It's federalist...
...silver heads--and their combined 72 years of Senate experience--together in an effort to pull their less seasoned colleagues back from the brink. Virginia Republican John Warner and West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd had each brought a copy of the Constitution and were poring over Alexander Hamilton's "Federalist No. 66" to see if they could discern precisely what the Founding Fathers meant when they gave the Senate the power to advise the President on whom he appoints. The talks had begun the day before, when the two ran into each other by chance in the Russell Senate Office...
...proposed mandates represent another blow to states' rights that may ultimately stir up the federalist wing of the G.O.P., which is unhappy with the massive new education and homeland-security burdens imposed by Washington on the rest of the country. The suggested ID changes are particularly bold, since the 9/11 reform bill passed in December asked state officials to come together on their own to craft national standards for driver's licenses. A 16-person commission had been merrily doing that until it got a letter last week from the feds suspending its operation. "There are legitimate concerns about undermining...
...zone limits. "Berlusconi wanted to be like Bush, pursuing an expansionist policy by running a deficit," says opposition MP Enrico Letta. Having patched over coalition differences, the PM is playing it safe - he's stopped calling for income tax cuts, and though he dare not renounce the League's federalist goals, prospects for action on that front have dimmed. For the next year, Berlusconi's main mission will simply be to survive...
...notion of education is precisely that in the U.S. we have this lengthy, old tradition. You read the Federalist papers and you are already with Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke...