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...confidence of the American people in the ability of the government to govern has eroded at a progressively increasing rate. The failure of nearly one-half of America's qualified voters to turn up at the polls last November is indicative of a lack of faith in anyone's ability to govern properly...
With regard to the state, however, we, the people, have an unavoidable stake in demanding accountability to us, through those whom we have chosen to govern. Our interest derives not merely from the fact that our contact with the state is unavoidable, but from the separate consideration that we are the source of the state's authority...
...young person not know that his future is limited by the economic reality which characterizes the dependent countries? Because if there is something that should worry us, the ones who govern, it is the growth in the number of unemployed college people in our societies...
...nation, too, the stakes are high. Even before Agnew's troubles burst into view, Watergate had sorely eroded public confidence in Government and enhanced cynicism about politics. If Agnew is finally adjudged guilty, that erosion and cynicism will be deepened, particularly in view of all his vehement protestations of innocence. Conversely, if he is found not guilty, the administration of justice, not to mention the press, will suffer yet another black eye for having needlessly ? Agnew would argue perniciously ? inflicted the ordeal on the Vice President and the country. Either outcome is likely to deepen the divisions...
...coup to avert a civil war," Allende defiantly declared last week, "but in Chile there will be neither a coup nor a civil war." The tragic prospect is that while the harassed and embattled President may succeed in averting a military coup, he may soon be powerless to govern or to stave off overt civil...