Word: madison
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...more be shared with the Executive Branch than the Chief Executive, for example, can share with the Judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with the Judiciary the power to override a presidential veto." Quoting directly from Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in Marbury v. Madison, the court said, "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is" with respect to the claim of privilege presented in this case...
...perceived as a somewhat unappetizing career, and not only in America. Historian Henry Steele Commager notes that "talent grows in whatever channels are available and are popular. It goes where the public rewards are." Thus the birth of the U.S. was attended by a breathtaking array of intellectual talent?Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin?because public service was the ideal and one of the few outlets for talent in late 18th century America. But in the 20th century, says Commager, talent is best rewarded in private enterprise, and the better leaders leave politics to the mediocre. He might also have...
Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, or almost any of the founding fathers -Adams, Madison, Washington. Perhaps Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as well...
MARTIN DIAMOND, U.S. political scientist (Northern Illinois University): In the last 200 years, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and James Madison. Lincoln proved that the highest grace can be attained by a person of ordinary origins. Churchill showed that a person from the aristocracy who excelled in all ways could become a servant of democracy. Madison, a 126-lb. weakling with no charisma, framed perhaps the most incredible document of our time: the U.S. Constitution. Until Madison, no famous or thoughtful person-from Socrates to Montesquieu, from Plato to Hobbes-had ever endorsed democracy...
This, say Jim Baumohl and Henry Miller, is a chain of ghettos stretching across the nation's college towns from Cambridge, Mass., via Ann Arbor, Mich., and Madison, Wis., to Santa Barbara and Berkeley, Calif. The youths who wander from one tolerant university town to the next are "street people," who bear a superficial resemblance to the hippies of the late '60s. Yet unlike the flower children (of whom only a few remain), the new group of itinerant youths have not rejected the Establishment out of ideological beliefs. They are authentically poor, and though most say they want...