Word: publica
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...little attention will be paid to the significance of the fact that, across the country, a growing number of citizens are content to leave decisions about the running of the res publica to others. In the last congressional elections, only 38 percent of the eligible citizens went to the polls. This figure was the lowest in 45 years and in several states the turnout was the lowest since 1798. In effect, Americans are returning to the way of doing political business that was the norm before the civil rights movement...
...Thomas Hirschfeld '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "lus in the De Re Publica. The Meaning of Ambiguity" Associate Professor Thomas R. Martin...