Sesame and LiliesYale University Press, 01/01/2002 - 240 من الصفحات In this publication, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda in America and present an initiative that claims to avoid the mistakes of the past. Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of secret donation booths for campaign contributions. They unveil a plan in which the government provides each voter with a special credit card account containing 50 Patriot dollars for presidential elections. To use this money, citizens go to their local ATM machine and anonymously send their Patriot dollars to their favourite candidates or political organizations. Americans are free to make additional contributions, but they must also give these gifts anonymously. Because candidates cannot identify who provided the funds, it will be much harder for big contributors to buy political influence. And the need for politicians to compete for the Patriot dollars will give much more power to the people. Ackerman and Ayres work out the operating details of their plan, anticipate problems, design safeguards, suggest overseers, and show how their proposals satisfy the most stringent constitutional requirements. They conclude with a model statute that could serve as the basis of a serious congressional effort to restore Americans' faith in democratic politics. |
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الصفحة xvii
... characters are briefly these " ( §68 ) , “ each completes the other , ” “ they are in nothing alike ” ( §67 ) — the roles and even the attri- butes of men and women have a way of bleeding into each other in Ruskin's two essays . With ...
... characters are briefly these " ( §68 ) , “ each completes the other , ” “ they are in nothing alike ” ( §67 ) — the roles and even the attri- butes of men and women have a way of bleeding into each other in Ruskin's two essays . With ...
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... character and a boy's — you may chisel a boy into shape , as you would a rock , or hammer him into it , if he be of a better kind , as you would a piece of bronze . But you cannot hammer a girl into anything . She grows as a flower does ...
... character and a boy's — you may chisel a boy into shape , as you would a rock , or hammer him into it , if he be of a better kind , as you would a piece of bronze . But you cannot hammer a girl into anything . She grows as a flower does ...
الصفحة xxi
... character grows organically from a germ of personality , vir- tue , and vulnerability , and he seldom employs the language of masonry or engraving in referring to the crafting of her character and mind . But the fact remains that in ...
... character grows organically from a germ of personality , vir- tue , and vulnerability , and he seldom employs the language of masonry or engraving in referring to the crafting of her character and mind . But the fact remains that in ...
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... character in Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian ; that “ Her household motions . . . virgin liberty " comes from William Wordsworth's " Perfect Woman " ; that “ Austrian guns " refers to the Austrian occupation of Italy after the defeat ...
... character in Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian ; that “ Her household motions . . . virgin liberty " comes from William Wordsworth's " Perfect Woman " ; that “ Austrian guns " refers to the Austrian occupation of Italy after the defeat ...
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... character. The blame of bribing guides into danger is a singular accusation, in behalf of a people who have made mercenary soldiers of themselves for centuries, without any one's thinking of giving their fidelity better employment ...
... character. The blame of bribing guides into danger is a singular accusation, in behalf of a people who have made mercenary soldiers of themselves for centuries, without any one's thinking of giving their fidelity better employment ...
المحتوى
Glossary | 95 |
Rethinking Sesame and Lilies | 111 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 205 |
List of Contributors | 209 |
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