BrentRights From Tarter, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (JulyThe Start 1991), Virginia Historical Society, P.O. BOX 7311, Richmond,
Va. 23221-031 1.
Two centuries ago, on Dec. 15, 1791, Vir- ginia became the 1 lth and final state to ratify the Bill of Rights. Today, Virginia's George Mason (1725-92), the principal au- thor of the state's famous Declaration of Rights and its Constitution of 1776, is hailed as one of the fathers of the Bill of Rights. As a delegate to the Constitutional...
Con- gress to the State Legislatures. . .but of important & substantial Amendments, I have not the least Hope." This father of the Bill of Rights went to his grave three years later without ever having given the Con- stitution his blessing.
"Voter Turnout" Raymond E.Wolfinger and "Electoral Par-
Voting Booth Blues ticipation: Summing UP a Decade" bv Carole Jean Uhlaner in society (July-Aug. 1961), ~ut~ers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
When Americans...
Uhlaner's own report of a dramatic in- crease in registration (from 39 to 59 per- cent) and voter turnout (from 28 to 59 per- cent) among Mexican-Americans. Uhlaner credits aggressive registration drives. these measures, Mexican-Americans now participate in politics more actively than blacks do. More than ever, blacks seem a constituency in search of a party.
Keeping Secrets "The Fight to Know" by Peter Montgomery and Peter Overby, in Common Cause Magazine (July-Aug. 1991), 2030 M St....
Uhlaner's own report of a dramatic in- crease in registration (from 39 to 59 per- cent) and voter turnout (from 28 to 59 per- cent) among Mexican-Americans. Uhlaner credits aggressive registration drives. these measures, Mexican-Americans now participate in politics more actively than blacks do. More than ever, blacks seem a constituency in search of a party.
Keeping Secrets "The Fight to Know" by Peter Montgomery and Peter Overby, in Common Cause Magazine (July-Aug. 1991), 2030 M St....
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ing off now in search of President George Bush's New World Order, he argues, the United States should abandon internation- alism and start thinking in terms of "purely national interests."
U.S. foreign policy since World War 11, in Tonelson's view, has had the utopian purpose of transforming the world "into a nlace where the forces that drive nations to clash in the first place no longer exist." Internationalism, he says, has encouraged Americans "to think...
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good reason, the historian notes: "They were . . . provocative, vulnerable, and practically useless." The original decision to deploy the missiles had been made in 1957, after the launching of the Soviet Sputnik aroused Europe's fears about the depth of US. commitment to its defense. But the Jupiters were not actually de- ployed until after Kennedy took office in
1961. While he was inclined to cancel de- ployment, his advisers feared that after the tense June summit meetin...
Sid- ney L. Carroll, in Challenge (May-June 1991), 80 Business Park The Wealth Dr., Arrnonk, N.Y. 10504.
A mere one percent of all Americans own nearly one-third of the nation's wealth- $3.7 trillion in 1986. Roughly one-half of their considerable fortunes were inherited. And much of that inherited wealth is not put to imaginative use. On the contrary, asserts Carroll, an economist at the Uni- versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, massive inherited fortunes are typically locked away in estate trusts,...
Sid- ney L. Carroll, in Challenge (May-June 1991), 80 Business Park The Wealth Dr., Arrnonk, N.Y. 10504.
A mere one percent of all Americans own nearly one-third of the nation's wealth- $3.7 trillion in 1986. Roughly one-half of their considerable fortunes were inherited. And much of that inherited wealth is not put to imaginative use. On the contrary, asserts Carroll, an economist at the Uni- versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, massive inherited fortunes are typically locked away in estate trusts,...
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derer. Much of what's wrong, he says, is rooted in the courts' adversarial nature, which necessitates "a bristling array of constitutional safeguards and procedural rules" to protect the accused. Maechling argues for radical reform: taking a leaf from the so-called inquisitorial criminal- justice process used everywhere in Europe except Great Britain and Ireland.
The European approach relies on "ob- jective methods of inquiry rather than . . . pit-bull confrontations," s...
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to answer questions, although the jury, un- like a U.S. panel, may draw a negative in- ference. The defense counsel may cross- examine witnesses and make legal arguments, but "cannot disrupt the pro- ceedings with delaying tactics and frivo- lous objections on points of procedure."
Drawing on the European approach, Maechling recommends reversing the Su- preme Court rulings that make evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amend- ment's prohibition against unreasonable...