Word: westview
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...Westview Presbyterian Church
...pressure for changing the rules, Sanford is publishing a book in June, A Danger of Democracy (Westview Press; 184 pages), analyzing the selection process. In it he cites the need for "thinking delegates" who carefully deliberate on their choice for President. Like other critics of the present system, Sanford wants to liberate convention delegates from their rigid commitment to a particular candidate. Under the present system, the delegates have virtually no flexibility to adapt to changing political conditions once they are selected, says Sanford. "They are instructed and bound more precisely than when they were bound and driven...
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