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Four years after a sex scandal forced Morris out of his job as Clinton's most trusted advisor, the controversial commentator-turned-democracy entrepreneur engaged political journalist Jacob Weisberg in a debate last night on the repercussions of the Internet for American democracy...
...Weisberg, who is the chief political correspondent for the online magazine Slate, argued that impracticality wasn't the only reason the founding fathers didn't choose direct democracy...
...Madison thought that popular democracy could lead to majority tyranny," Weisberg said...
According to Weisberg, the U.S. adopted a Madisonian representative democracy, with checks and balances to "slow down" popular opinion...
...conspiracy spinning, together with his self-aggrandizing blast faxes to reporters--"Klayman looks to no one, other than God, for guidance and direction," a recent fax proclaimed--has won him his share of attention in Washington, some of it puzzled, some mocking. In the online magazine Slate, Jacob Weisberg declares that "Klayman is off his rocker." But at least one of Klayman's early lines of pursuit has been picked up by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, a man who has faced, and faced down, more than a few complaints about his own investigative techniques. Last week Harold Ickes, the former...