Word: governability
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...social life becomes intolerable, if not impossible, unless justice and benevolence govern the operations of the state and relationships between individuals and groups . . . Expressions such as 'my life is my own affair,' ... or 'in politics anything goes' are all too common today. They betray a gross misunderstanding of the moral order...
...side of the essential relationship between law and justice. He seems blind to the responsibilities and opportunities of U.S. leadership. In a detached, passive and utterly unrealistic passage, he says: "It seems to me that peace in this world is impossible unless nations agree on a definite law to govern their relations . . . and also agree that, without any veto power, they will submit their disputes to adjudication and abide by the decision of an impartial tribunal...
When the "People's Republic of China" first began to govern, the U.S. government proinptly announced--to the vociferous applause of its Congressional critics--that the Communist government was bad and that this country could not recognize it. The Chinese must have seen in this rejection a fundamental hostility, which, along with the refusal to admit them to U.N. membership, may have been one of the factors that led to their intervention in the Korean war. When the Communist "volunteers" poured into South Korea, administration spokesman and Republican leaders displayed an "I told you so" attitude...
...which is right and proper, and license in the classroom, which is wrong and improper." Defending the rights of the majority, and assuming that Yale graduates are predominantly Christians and capitalists. Buckley further maintains that Yale must teach the ideologies and value judgements of its alumni. "The responsibility to govern Yale falls ultimately on the shoulders of her alumni...
Many other critics agreed that Buckley's theory of education is inconsistent. While he proposes that the alumni govern what professors teach, he insists that "a student (would) remain the final arbiter under the system I propose. Under no circumstances should he be shielded from the thought and writings of men with different values; but the professor should do his earnest and intellectual best to expose the shortcomings and fallacies of such value judgements...