Word: politices
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Today, one of the first principles of our democracy is that no subgroup of the population, no matter how talented or wise, will make better decisions more frequently than the nation as a whole. We recognize the right of all individuals to participate in the governing process, to help choose...
Shouldn't high crimes and misdemeanors at least be crimes in the criminal code? Once again, no: impeachment is a political, not a criminal, process, designed to remove officials who abuse their powers. Law professors use an example: if a Senator moves to the Bahamas and refuses to return, she...
As Abra Fortune Chernik said in her essay "The Body Politic," "Gaining weight and getting my head out of the toilet bowl was the most political act I ever committed."
What is captivating here is that Berkowitz wrote the review just before he went up for tenure in the government department, one of whose voting members in Thompson. Berkowitz explained his actions in Nesson's class as follows. Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, suggested Berkowitz review...
The Japan Inc. model, which has been adopted to varying degrees across East Asia, relies on the body politic's accepting the dictates of a meritocracy chosen from society's best and brightest. When the technocrats decreed that the economy needed vast amounts of capital to invest in development, the...