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...forces outside that seek to diminish it has rarely if ever occurred. Thomas Jefferson was worried about the "tyranny of the legislature." By 1861, Executive Branch power was at a peak in the hands of Abraham Lincoln, only to slip from the grasp of indifferent and incompetent Presidents until Scholar Woodrow Wilson could suggest in 1885 that Congress had become the dominant part of Government. By the time Wilson won the White House, though, the U.S. was assuming international responsibilities that gave new importance to the presidency. That power was enlarged by Franklin Roosevelt in the Great Depression and World...
Ronald Reagan is no constitutional scholar. But he is a creation of the conservatism of the 1950s, which was founded on a new constitutional argument: that liberalism had gone beyond written authority, and the courts had allowed it. Reagan read a lot from The Federalist in those years and developed a special fondness for many of the Constitution's tenets. Speechwriter Tony Dolan once remarked to the President that federalism "promotes" creativity in a society. "No," Reagan cautioned him, "federalism permits creativity...
Clay Jenkinson, a humanities scholar, has teamed up with Melvin Kahn, a professor of political science at Wichita State University, to play Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Founding Fathers with very different ideas about government. Touring the Midwest, the actors have discovered that while most of their audiences sympathize with the populist views of Jefferson, they actually vote for Hamilton, whose vision of a strong central government they find more realistic. "I've come to the conclusion that we live in a Hamiltonian nation with a Jeffersonian rhetoric," says Jenkinson ruefully...
...centuries later Shallus becomes history's triviality, his story revived by a scholar, Arthur Plotnik, in a new biography. But the words on paper are given Bicentennial parades. Amazing little artifact. What started out at one man's writing desk eventually journeyed the country from city to city as the nation's capital moved, went into hiding during the War of 1812, was transferred from federal department to department until it wound up in the National Archives in Washington, sanctified in helium and watched over by an electronic camera conceived by NASA. The quill age to the space...
...your child," observes Elaine Claar Campbell, a Chicago investment banker. She and her lawyer-husband Ray, armed with five pages of questions, spent three months interviewing more than 50 people, before settling on Clara Hawkes, 47, an artist from Santa Fe whose own daughter is a National Merit Scholar. "You don't want to gamble with your child," says...