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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... kind of moral instruction that credited the most private matters of the individual life — manhood and womanhood and the relations between them — with the power of social redemption . In Sesame and Lilies the aesthetic — and especially ...
... kind of moral instruction that credited the most private matters of the individual life — manhood and womanhood and the relations between them — with the power of social redemption . In Sesame and Lilies the aesthetic — and especially ...
الصفحة xvi
... kind of worship as a form of denigra- tion ; Ruskin reified the idea of " separate spheres " for men and women , relegating women to the sphere of home , whereas Mill invited women into public life , legal equality , even service to the ...
... kind of worship as a form of denigra- tion ; Ruskin reified the idea of " separate spheres " for men and women , relegating women to the sphere of home , whereas Mill invited women into public life , legal equality , even service to the ...
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... kind , as you would a piece of bronze . But you cannot hammer a girl into anything . She grows as a flower does , — she will wither without sun ; she will decay in her sheath , as a narcissus will , if you do not give her air enough ...
... kind , as you would a piece of bronze . But you cannot hammer a girl into anything . She grows as a flower does , — she will wither without sun ; she will decay in her sheath , as a narcissus will , if you do not give her air enough ...
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... kind of mining and chiseling , the acts of reading and writing , will help to curtail the literal and metaphorical destruction of the country ; so too will the powers of nature and the feminine talents with which they are allied prove ...
... kind of mining and chiseling , the acts of reading and writing , will help to curtail the literal and metaphorical destruction of the country ; so too will the powers of nature and the feminine talents with which they are allied prove ...
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... kind, as if profitless to them. But neither macadamisation, nor tun- nelling, nor rope ladders, will ever enable one human creature to understand the pleasure in natural scenery felt by Theocritus or Virgil; and I believe the athletic ...
... kind, as if profitless to them. But neither macadamisation, nor tun- nelling, nor rope ladders, will ever enable one human creature to understand the pleasure in natural scenery felt by Theocritus or Virgil; and I believe the athletic ...
المحتوى
Glossary | 95 |
Rethinking Sesame and Lilies | 111 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 205 |
List of Contributors | 209 |
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