Word: governed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scelba won his vote of confidence as expected, 300 to 283, and for the first time in three months, Italy had a govern ment able to command a narrow majority in parliament. But it might not be for long. The case of Montagna had rocked Italy, and it could well bring down the government. For the case displayed, for all to see, the decadence that infects too much of Italy's moneyed classes, the irresponsibility of privilege that embitters even men of good will...
...have the demagogues triumphed so often? The answer is inescapable: because a group of political plungers has persuaded the President that McCarthyism is the best Republican formula for political success. Had the Eisenhower Administration chosen to act in defense of itself and of the nation which it must govern, it would have had the grateful and dedicated support of all but a tiny and deluded minority of our people. Yet the Administration appears to be helpless ... It seems to me that this [Secretary of the Army] Stevens incident illustrates what preceding events have made memorably plain: a political party divided...
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...