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...Anderson was still able to garner nearly 7% of the vote, provoking pols and pundits to ponder anew the viability of independent and third-party candidacies. Today Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, travels the lecture circuit as president of the World Federalist Association, an organization that promotes world peace. "We are now light years ahead of where we were in people's thinking about how the two-party system has failed them," Anderson says. "The race between Perot and Lamm only increases the legitimacy of the third party...
...classroom, from its infancy in the writings of Plato and Aristotle (though neither was a particular fan of democracy, to be sure) to its coming of age in the works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Burke. We should have to observe it as it plays itself out in the Federalist Papers, the Constitutional Ratification Debates and beyond...
...Saddam as the devil incarnate did not help the public understand why he was allowed to stay in power. It is naive, however, to think that if Saddam had fallen, he would necessarily have been replaced by a Jeffersonian in some sort of desert democracy where people read the Federalist papers along with the Koran. Quite possibly, we would have wound up with a Saddam by another name...
Clinton should pay more attention to the words of the founders of our government, namely Alexander Hamilton. "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government," Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 70. "A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government...
Self-reliance has even taken hold on the governmental level. Disenchantment with all things federal has helped spur a New Federalist movement led by such Governors as Utah's Michael Leavitt and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson. Though voter turnout is lowest in elections for local government, that is the most popular form of government. In a 1993 survey, only 23% of Americans said they got the most for their tax dollars at the federal level, down from 39% in 1972. By comparison, support for spending at the local level rose from 26% to 38% during the same period...