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...from a four-way fragmentation of the vote, the strongly anti-secessionist Liberal Party won 72 seats out of 108, a 27-seat increase over its 1966 results. The ruling National Union Party, which had straddled the separatism issue, lost 38 of its 55 seats, while the right-wing federalist Créditiste Party won 12. The separatist Quebec Party actually finished second, with 23% of the popular vote. But because Quebec's representation is heavily weighted in favor of rural voters, the predominantly urban party won only seven seats. Even its leader, René Lévesque, Quebec...
...domestic peace, and as Justice Holmes noted, "Every idea is an incitement." The U.S. is no exception to the rule that in times of violent dissent, political speeches can become fighting words, and rights get bent in the process. Before the Bill of Rights was seven years old, the Federalist Administration of John Adams invoked the Alien and Sedition Acts to prosecute no one more seditious than newspaper editors who supported the opposing Democratic-Republican Party. The World War I Espionage and Sedition Acts were used to arrest 2,000 antiwar dissenters who dared to utter or write "disloyal" statements...
...radical has achieved a position of power, insists Alinsky, he must negotiate on the basis of the world as it is: "Compromise is a noble word that sums up democracy." Alinsky claims to be doing nothing more un-American than following the precepts of the Founding Fathers. In the Federalist papers, James Madison warned against allowing any class or faction to acquire too much power. In his own way, Alinsky is trying to redress the balance of power within contemporary America. If the desire to preserve basic American principles makes one a conservative, then he indeed qualifies. His more boisterous...
...first exegesis came from Speechwriter William Safire, 40, who wrote a 19-page tract entitled "New Federalist Paper #1, by Publius"-in imitation of the Federalist Papers, signed "Publius," by Hamilton, Madison and Jay (TIME, Jan. 26). Nowhere does New Publius attempt to equal the lucid grace of the original, but his essay is an enthusiastic effort to erect some theoretical carapace over Nixon's policies. "The purpose of the New Federalism," writes New Publius, "is to come to grips with a paradox: a need for both national unity and local diversity; a need to protect both individual equality...
Circulating among Government departments in Washington is a 19-page treatise called "New Federalist Paper No. 1, by Publius." Two centuries ago, "Publius" was Hamilton. Madison and Jay, whose collective prose, "written in Favour of the New Constitution," became a classic catechism of the American democracy. The Nixonian Publius is White House Speechwriter William Safire, a longtime G.O.P. public relations consultant...