Thomas W. Kremm, in Journal of In-terdisciplinary History (Summer 1977),
28 Carleton St.,Cambridge, Mass. 02142
Historians have long believed that Abraham Lincoln owed his election as President in 1860 to the votes of the foreign-born. Naturalized citi- zens-particularly German-Americans who had taken part in the middle-class uprisings of Europe in 1848-shared a hostility toward both slavery and the overwhelming influence of the South in Congress. They therefore voted in solid blocs for the Republican...
Philip F. Gura, in The New England Quar- terly (Sept. 1977), Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. 0401 1
To many 17th-century New Englanders, William Phips (1651-95) epitomized what a good governor should not be. But preacher Cotton Mather found an overriding virtue in Phips's checkered career: his "love for his country ."
Gura, a professor of English at the University of Colorado, finds the appeal to patriotism in Mather's Life of Phips (1697) a fateful updating of the Puritans'...
Philip F. Gura, in The New England Quar- terly (Sept. 1977), Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. 0401 1
To many 17th-century New Englanders, William Phips (1651-95) epitomized what a good governor should not be. But preacher Cotton Mather found an overriding virtue in Phips's checkered career: his "love for his country ."
Gura, a professor of English at the University of Colorado, finds the appeal to patriotism in Mather's Life of Phips (1697) a fateful updating of the Puritans'...
Robert J. Steamer, in Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1977), 2852 Broadway, New York,
N.Y. 10025.
Lawyers, political scientists, and reporters discussing the Supreme
Court under Chief Justice Warren Burger tend to adopt "angry and
apocalyptic" tones. Many feel that Nixon and Ford appointees to the
Burger Court have systematically dismantled the "edifice of civil liber-
ties" erected the Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-69).
Despite all the "hand-wringing,"...
now so ingrained that it wins votes from conservatives and liberals alike in congressional and state elections. But a "New Liberalism" has emerged in the past 20 years among a small but influential group of well-to-do, college-educated professionals who question the old economic and moral values. They reject equality of opportunity in favor of equality of result, writes Ladd, and take a libertarian stand on abortion, drugs, sexuality, and race.
New Liberals have a greater impact on the...
1460 local officials followed suit.
Like other medieval English institutions, the Chancery had evolved from an arm of the royal household into an administrative secretariat led a powerful Chancellor. All correspondence from King and Par- liament, all petitions, proclamations, records, indentures, summonses, and writs, were written by the Chancery. And just as all Chancery clerks came to write in a distinctive "Chancery script," so too their words acquired linguistic uniformity when they...
the
rank-and-file (the most recent example: Gerald Ford's 1965 victory over
incumbent Charles Halleck for the minority leadership).
Nelson speculates that the homogeneous, conservative composition
of the House Republican membership has been conducive to more open
leadership contests. The large, heterogeneous membership of the House
Democrats, however, must cope with fiercely contending regional and
'
ideological interests. Their highly regulated succession process seeks to
avoid the...
Jorma
K. Meittinen, in Bulletin of the Atomic
Threshold Scientists, (Sept. 1977), 1020 E. 58th St., Chicago, 111. 60637.
Congress is currently debating development of a new, more sophisti- cated weapon, the enhanced-radiation, or "neutron," bomb. The prin- cipal difference between this nuclear weapon and others is its capacity to deal a lethal blow to enemy troops while greatly limiting damage to buildings and roads in the area of the blast.
The mechanics of the weapon are straightforward,...
Jorma
K. Meittinen, in Bulletin of the Atomic
Threshold Scientists, (Sept. 1977), 1020 E. 58th St., Chicago, 111. 60637.
Congress is currently debating development of a new, more sophisti- cated weapon, the enhanced-radiation, or "neutron," bomb. The prin- cipal difference between this nuclear weapon and others is its capacity to deal a lethal blow to enemy troops while greatly limiting damage to buildings and roads in the area of the blast.
The mechanics of the weapon are straightforward,...