Word: madison
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...court, Inslaw President William Hamilton pointed out that the Justice Department official who oversaw the Inslaw contract was C. Madison Brewer III, who had previously been fired as the company's general counsel. The whole dispute arose, said Hamilton, from Brewer's desire for revenge. Bason agreed, ruling that Brewer had an "intense and abiding hatred" for Inslaw and had used his position at the Justice Department to "vent his spleen." The judge faulted other Justice officials for not investigating Brewer's actions. As for the appropriation of the Inslaw software, the judge likened Justice to a customer who asks...
Everywhere, from bookstores to boardrooms, from trading floors to ivory towers, speculations about the financial future fill the air. Declares Economist Robert Heilbroner, writing in The New Yorker: "It is a sense that an ill-defined but vast crisis looms on the economic horizon." In a University of Wisconsin-Madison survey of 105 top executives of major U.S. corporations, half the business leaders assigned a "high probability" to the advent of a major depression in the next ten years...
...letter to Jefferson in 1788, Madison expressed another danger inherent in a bill of rights--that it would be interpreted statically, preventing the gradual expansion of people's rights with the passage of time. As a result, the rights of future generations likely would be constrained by the stinginess of past ones. "A positive declaration of some of the most essential rights," he felt, "could not be obtained in the requisite lattitude." Far better to avoid specific guarantees and let rights evolve with the passage of time. For a bill of rights would in essence be cannon fodder for people...
...this was what Madison wanted. A friend of religious toleration, he felt that "the rights of conscience in particular, if submitted to public definition, would be narrowed much more than they are likely ever to be by an assumed power." As time went on and civilization and its standards of justice progressed, society gradually would come closer and closer to true justice--which was "the end of government" and "the end of civil society...
...Madison and Hamilton, of course, ultimately failed to persuade their countrymen. But their worst fears need not come true as a result. Madison sought to overcome the potential dangers of a bill of rights with the Ninth Amendment--which declared that the rights enumerated in the first eight amendments were not to be construed as the only legitimate ones. And many Constitutional commentators throughout the antebellum period continued to take for granted that the intent of the Constitution could be garnered only by examining the broad phrases in the preamble...