Word: governability
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Subjected to a drizzle of Communist strikes, tugged at by the angry orators of the extreme right and left, Premier Mario Scelba's coalition submitted last week to the first crucial test of its ability to stick together and govern Italy. The scene was the Senate, where the new Scelba Cabinet had to win its first confidence vote...
...other demand that every citizen shall, in every relevant situation, "cooperate in government" cannot, in the same way, be set aside. In some sense, that duty is laid upon every one of us. But in what sense? Does it mean that our only duty is to obey the laws and submit, without question, to the authority of our agents who govern us? That suggestion, which would be valid in a despotic society, is intolerable where men, as we say, "govern themselves." If it were true what is the purpose of those "checks and balances" by which each of the separate...
...letter seems to me to fail of its purpose of advising citizens about their duty to the nation chiefly because it ignores the two-sidedness of the institutions of political self-government. Free men, it is true, are subjects of the laws. But, in a far more important aspect, they are also masters of them, responsible for them. As subjects, we have "privileges." But, as masters, we have "duties." The letter speaks much of our privileges. But it seems to me to ignore our Constitutional states as the ultimate rulers of the nation. It, therefore, leaves out of account...
...scramble caused by another Premier's fall, the Christian Democrats groped for a new candidate to govern Italy. The key man in the operation turned out to be a practiced and familiar politico: Alcide de Gasperi...
...confusion of class bitterness and divided counsels, Italy began the delicate search for someone to govern. Narrow as they were, the figures still favor the democratic center. Strong enough to gain from dissension, patient enough to wait for chaos, the Communists are still neither able nor willing to take power legally. The far right is imposing enough to harass, but too weak to be a threat. Only the Christian Democrats have the chance to patch together a parliamentary majority...