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This all suggests that if voters are serious about change, craving a new kind of politics, then they can't stop with the White House: Capitol Hill will also need a makeover. Members of Congress were never meant to have tenure; the more anti-Federalist of the founders wouldn't have wanted a government that required full-time, much less lifelong, service. Lawmakers usually pitched in for a few years upholstering the work of the framers, then went back to their plantations or law practices. This model of the citizen-legislator held for about 100 years, until government began...
...professor and former Reagan Justice Department lawyer (Samuel Alito was an office mate) attends Mass each morning. He has actively opposed abortion for most of his adult life, working with crisis pregnancy centers to persuade women not to undergo the procedure. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and occasionally sends a contribution to Focus on the Family...
...TheFinalClub.org, created by Harvard grads Andrew J. Magliozzi ’05 and Jay K. Bacrania ’05, features extensive annotations on literary classics like Macbeth, the Federalist Papers, and the Bible. But the real meat of the site is the detailed, organized, play-by-play lecture notes on Harvard classes ranging from Science B-47: “The Molecules of Life,” to the ever-popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology.” The site is blogged by ambitious students, and sometimes even course...
...would be the purpose of a genuine constitution. It would set out clearly those matters that are the responsibility of the E.U., and those that remain the responsibility of the member states. It is this that Europe badly needs. And it can be secured if, and only if, the federalist dream is explicitly abandoned. Meanwhile, what we have before us is not, alas, a constitution, but its very antithesis: an anticonstitution...
...Toobin says—he needed all the goodwill he could muster to write this book.“The Nine” goes behind and around the curtain at the Supreme Court to track the rise of the conservative movement, beginning with the creation of the Federalist Society in 1982 and not ending until the close of the judicial term last June. In his book, Toobin makes the point that the Supreme Court is as much at the mercy of politics as any other branch of government, no matter how much anyone wants to believe that the Justices...