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...selfish mother country. It was also an act of political philosophy and faith. It was a promise, as Archibald MacLeish put it, a promise to the colonists, to their descendants and to the world at large. The promise was contained in the Declaration of Independence: that people could govern themselves; that they could live in both freedom and equality; and that they would act in accord with reason-reason being a divine attribute, God's light...
...single nation spreading 2,800 miles across one of the most varied landscapes in the world was therefore beyond the imagination of those whom we call our founding fathers. The generation that fought the War for Independence and wrote the federal Constitution doubted that a representative government could decently and efficiently rule a large area. The excesses and failures of the British Parliament in its effort to govern the colonies seemed an obvious illustration. When Patrick Henry argued against ratifying the federal Constitution in the Virginia Convention (June 9,1788), he called for a single example of a great extent...
...Premier heads the government of all Italians. I represent the party at the head of 38% of the voters. My function is to keep it united and if possible to increase its size. The Premier's function Is to govern Italy. In the party congress of 1973, it was said that there are only two thoroughbreds in the party, Moro and Fanfani, and that it was time that we decided to run together. That was when I called myself a Tuscan pony-un cavallino Toscano-and Moro a good southern horse. In any case we are in the same...
...effort against North Vietnam, which page 4/Dump Truck in part accounts for the impact of his book Nurenberg and Vietnam. Published in 1971, this book used a conservative and restricted interpretation of international law, and in it Taylor came to the painful conclusion that his government was in fact guilty of contravening the standards of law that govern warfare. He did not deal directly with the question of whether and how the responsible American officials should be brought to trial, explaining in the spring of 1971 that this political aspect of his problem went beyond the bounds of his legal...
...star from clear that undergraduates should help govern the DuBois institute. Bok said in the letter because the institute is primarily a graduate center and students' "experience leaves them much less qualified to evaluate the needs of research and graduate training...