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From their Washington office they distribute a monthly newspaper, the Student Federalist, which reaches nearly 40,000 readers. They are currently concentrating on a sales campaign for LIFE Editor David Cort's newly published The Great Union, a brief, eloquent, brilliantly illustrated restatement of Streit's thesis. Convinced that their cause has no more than a half-century in which to save mankind from a third world war, they have set their sights for these goals by 1950: 1) 100,000 student members; 2) 30,000 teacher members; 3) 25,000 student leaders trained in summer camps annually...
None of this, however, will daunt Count Coudenhove-Kalergi. A famous name in Europe, the Count can be relied upon to drum up much sentiment for his ideas in the federalist U.S. He has a quite obvious appeal for internationalists. But he also has a program that can legitimately interest the isolationists. For his federalized Europe could presumably get along without the New World. The isolationists would like that just as much as the Europeans...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
...having broadened and deepened his knowledge since he was a young rebel against "Federalist" historians, Charlie Beard was bound to do a mature book on his ideas about the Constitution and what it has meant to the U.S. And since his own mind has been a battleground, it is not surprising that the book, published under the Platonic title of The Republic, should also be cast in the form of a series of Platonic (or Socratic) dialogues. To his study high up on a Connecticut hillside overlooking the Housatonic valley, Charlie Beard has invited an imaginary Dr. and Mrs. Smyth...
...Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence, fierce antiFederalist, ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts four times, was elected on his fifth try, subsequently reelected. He approved a bill which carved a state senatorial district in Essex County into an absurd shape, but gave the Federalists no chance of winning. At a Federalist rally, an artist (legend says it was Gilbert Stuart) drew a head, wings and claws on a map of the district, shouted: "That will do for a salamander." Cried a voice in the crowd: "Gerrymander...