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...actually happened behind the scenes to bring about People Power II? And could those very powers - and people - that have brought about the downfall of yet another Philippine President be the same forces that will make it difficult for anyone, including freshly sworn in President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to govern the Philippines effectively...
...sobering lesson to be drawn from the past few months is that the procedural is always substantive, that technical debates will always be resolved by a body politic manifestly unqualified to decide them. The issue is not that people are too stupid to govern themselves, but that no one, smart and educated people included, has the time to examine the issues in sufficient detail. How many citizens can be expected to learn statistics to understand the reasons for sampling? Is it unsurprising that the political and statistical debates are conducted on entirely different grounds...
...political campaign seasons since 1996 have seen an explosion in the use of "soft money," the unregulated, unlimited and undisclosed donations that give immense political influence to those wealthy enough to contribute. Federal laws and regulations currently govern campaign donations to individual candidates, placing reasonable limits on contributions and opening the influence-trading process to public scrutiny. But these laws do not apply to the $451 million in soft money paid to political parties this election season. The sheer scale of the unregulated donations belies the American commitment to government of, by and for the people. The proposal sponsored...
Bush began phoning G.O.P. lawmakers and asking them to give the Gore bashing a rest. He instructed Cheney and other allies to send the same message. The overheated rhetoric had outlived its usefulness; now it was only stirring up the Democrats and making it harder for Bush to govern when the time came. He hoped that Gore allies would be more likely to call for their man to step down if the Republicans weren't constantly doing so, and he wanted to smooth the way for the charm offensive he would launch as soon as Gore made it official...
...Florida justices began their decision by meeting these concerns head-on. The first words of their legal analysis are "Article II." And the first page contains a lengthy quote from 3 U.S.C. Sec. 5. The Florida Supreme Court emphasized that the Florida legislature's statutes "govern our decision today." And to underscore that point, the decision was heavily marbled with references to state statutes...