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...process of law ... We are asking that regulation ought to be considered as arrived at legitimately only from the consensus of the governed. These phrases are all pretty old, but they are not being taken seriously in American today. "In a 1965 speech SDS president Carl Oglesby brought Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine back from the grave to discuss the war in Vietnam." Our dead revolutionaries would soon wonder why their country was fighting against what appeared to be a revolution," he declared...
...criteria used in selecting the Jefferson Lecturer are that he or she be a "distinguished humanist," he able to communicate his or her ideas to a broad public, and he able to relate these ideas to public issues and affairs." Leonard Oliver, an NEH official, said yesterday...
Emily D.T. Vermeule. Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Classics and Fine Arts, was named Friday to deliver the 11th annual Jefferson Lecture, the most prestigious award given by the federal government for academic achievement...
Gerald Hilton. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, who delivered the Jefferson Lecture last year, called Vermule "a splendid choice" and described the lecture as "a rather grand occasion by the standards of an academic...
...hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing..." Thomas Jefferson...