Word: federalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is another problem with campaign funds. They are used mostly to purchase TV advertising. A mature and leading democracy like America should vote on the basis of reasoned argument, not because of cynical, low-minded commercials. Can you imagine 30-second spots as a replacement for the Federalist papers? Televised political ads are sold to our nation the same way as soap for dirty laundry. Like tobacco smoking, gambling and other expensive, unhealthy addictions, political TV ads should be taxed. At least we could put those dollars into something productive. STAN ROSENBERG Grayslake...
...warns this month's New Republic, technophobes beware: today's political science students may find themselves learning more about statistics than the Federalist Papers...
Consequently, we second-guess the motives of those who spend "too much" time on academics: Students who incessantly ask questions in lecture are brown-nosers, pre-meds who study on weekends are anal, gov-jocks who thrive on the Federalist papers are future political wannabe's. Academic earnestness is often meet with scathing criticisms of social climbing. The oft-repeated statement that "Harvard would be so much better if we didn't have classes" is a pithy reflection of our ironic attitude...
...Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp and those squirrely lawyers from the Federalist Society had remembered that, they might have realized that they were about to bring nothing but frustration to Paul Weyrich, not to speak of the Republican Party. Instead they must have whooped with joy when the trap was sprung. As I envision that scene, it's Friday, dress-down day in the law firms, and the Federalist Society lawyers are all wearing designer jeans...
...environment or in a closed environment. It just might turn out that a public Senate vote will produce a verdict inconsistent with the national interest. That is exactly what the nationally-minded Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he defended the Senate as the trier of presidential impeachments in Federalist Paper No. 65: a body that would be less accountable to public opinion in the several states...