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...Madison, the architect of the constitution, always maintained that America was not a democracy but a republic. A democracy was government by the people (something many of the founders considered akin to mob rule), while a republic, Madison wrote in "Federalist No. 10," is "a government in which the scheme of representation takes place...
...rest easy, Worry-Wort, you remain vanilla in the scheme of things. Lots of people like to flap gums during The Act. Others prefer to lie quietly, humming to themselves until it’s over. In any case, I think your ex’s retrospective addendum is geared at making you feel too insecure to bed these “randos...
...Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said the electronic register scheme - which could be in place by 2015 - was needed to protect the E.U.'s external borders now that travelers can cross national boundaries without checks between the 25 E.U. countries that are part of the border-free 'Schengen' zone. (E.U. members Ireland and the U.K. aren't in the zone, which does include non-members Iceland, Norway and Switzerland...
...Offsetting the bureaucracy of the biometric database, the scheme allows E.U. citizens and pre-screened 'low risk' frequent foreign travelers to pass through automated, fast-track frontier checkpoints without coming into contact with border guards...
...brace of low-emissions cars to their private transport options. A small increase in traffic as people take advantage of the exemption is unlikely to worry the Mayor, whose main aim is to wean people off private cars and onto buses, tubes and bikes. He says the scheme will be monitored and the exemption repealed if "hordes of people with a malignant turn of mind rush out to buy [low-emissions] cars just to annoy me." If he gets his third term in May, he adds, he'll bring in "increasingly punitive measures for those who disregard the future...