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When one glances back at the past, one occasionally sees clear and coherent elements of concept in the thinking of the Federalist statesmen, and some fairly clear ones in the thinking of some of their successors down through the middle of the XIX century...
Died. Grenville Clark, 84, Wall Street lawyer, Harvard benefactor (a member of the "Corporation" for 19 years), World Federalist and friend to two Presidents named Roosevelt, who did not let that stop him from organizing a national lawyers' committee to fight F.D.R.'s Supreme Court "packing" plan in 1937, later drafted the 1940 Selective Service Act, established the American Bar Association's civil rights committee, and wrote a voluminous treatise (World Peace Through World Law) calling for extensive revision of the United Nations charter, total disarmament and formation of a world development organization to promote peace...
...intellectuals, and the visit to Harvard is part of the plan. For three days he talked to students, answered questions, and presented himself as an intellectual. In one lecture, for example, he referred to everyone from Churchill to Leonardo da Vinci, and quoted from Aristotle, Arnold Toynbee, The Federalist Papers, and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure...
...theory of participatory democracy has its roots in the American Constitutional Convention of 1789, as the founders of SDS observed during the Port Huron Conference of 1962. Madison, citing Montesquieu, wrote in The Federalist Papers that only small nations could remain truly democratic. In a large country, one big faction might blot out the rights of a slightly smaller faction by means of a simple majority. The New Leftists, accordingly, believe that the United States has grown too large to rely on the simple majority alone and that consensus politics must return if justice is to be maintained...
Rump Groups. Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, serving his 22nd term, made another point by reading to Katzenbach a passage from Madison's Federalist Papers urging "frequent elections" for House members to ensure their "immediate dependency" on the people...