All Posts Tagged With: "representative government"
Why the Rush on Health Care?
Why is Obama so eager to have his healthcare “reform” voted on before members of Congress go home for their August recess? Because this advocate of “representative government,” like many others, is a big fraud. He wants the vote to occur before the members go home and get an earful from their “constituents” about how [...]
19Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Misrepresentation of Health Care Reform
In the debate over medical reform, everyone can find a public-opinion poll to support his or her position. Robert Reich, who favors deeper government involvement in health care than we already have, wrote recently, “In the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 76% of respondents said it was important that Americans have a choice [...]
26Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedTGIF: The Misrepresentation of Healthcare Reform
Why should the people get something through government–that is, at the point of a gun–simply because they want it? The rest of TGIF is here.
26Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedAre the Voters Qualified to Pick a President?
The big political buzz is over whether John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are qualified to be president. The voters are expected to decide, but are they qualified to do that? How would voters know who is up to this job? They might try to make a judgment on the basis of character. But [...]
1Apr2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat’s So Good About Democracy?
It was once said that “democracy is the most promiscuous word in the language; she is everybody’s mistress.” Indeed, political regimes of widely differing institutional features label themselves democracies, as did totalitarian communist orders. Often, the best guide to a country’s democratic credentials was that it didn’t call itself democratic: compare West Germany’s Federal Republic with the East German Democratic Republic.
1May2003 | Norman Barry | 35 comments | ContinuedJohn Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property
A number of times throughout history, tyranny has stimulated breakthrough thinking about liberty. This was certainly the case in England with the mid-seventeenth-century era of repression, rebellion, and civil war. There was a tremendous outpouring of political pamphlets and tracts. By far the most influential writings emerged from the pen of scholar John Locke.
1Aug1996 | Jim Powell | 176 comments | ContinuedHow Important Is Your Vote?
Don’t get me wrong. I cherish the right to vote—so much so that I don’t want it belittled by those who think that just showing up at the polls is all it takes to assure the survival of representative government. There are some people who should vote, and then there are others—millions of them, unfortunately—who would do representative government a big favor if they didn’t.
1Jan1995 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued-
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