Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only rarely does he touch on the jurisprudential philosophies of the justices. He stops only to observe that the earlier justice's famous "Brandeis briefs"--filled with sociological statistics and often devoid of constitutional argument helped further his populist ends, and that Frankfurter's deferential judicial attitude toward most legislative judgements helped establish the constitutionality of many New Deal programs he favored and often had quietly helped to draft...
...landed on Washington last week. There was a special debate in the House on arms control. The Senate held heated hearings on the Administration's strategic policy that raised sharp questions about the need for new weapons systems. Urged by anxious aides to get out front on a populist issue that threatens to overwhelm his plans for a massive military buildup, President Reagan held his first evening press conference-broadcast on television's prime time-to assure his fellow citizens that he shared their worries. Said the President in his opening statement: "My goal is to reduce nuclear...
What began as a popular, and populist, grass-roots sentiment has now become a potent factor in determining U.S. policy. This is the basic strength of a democratic system, but also a possible cause for concern. In an open society, legitimate movements based on valid ideals, like the arms-control crusade, have the potential to be manipulated in such a way that passions and emotions override rational judgments...
...opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors." Adds Elson: "TIME's correspondents turned up local initiatives all over the country. It is a populist, popular movement that has really sneaked...
...freeze proposal calls for verification. Critics, however, respond by claiming that a freeze on "testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons cannot be verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond that, a President pushed into negotiations with Moscow by the force of a populist movement, even in the name of a morally just cause, would be at an enormous disadvantage in trying to deal with leaders of a totalitarian society who knew in advance the limits of his maneuverability...