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In effect, the president, quite aware of his and his staff’s inexperience in drafting legislation (in fact, nobody on his senior staff had any experience at all), decided to outsource his agenda—and to a heretofore archenemy. Watching Ryan steal the legislative initiative during the transition,

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ANDREW J. BACEVICH,

But, buried within the lines of convoluted legalisms, the amendment also contained an innocuous phrase—concealed, as was the custom of the man who had been the best bill drafter in Albany, at the end of a long sentence whose other clauses all purportedly limited his powers—allowing the Coordinator to “represent the city in its relations with

The problem here is not with the notion of civility itself, but with a narrow conception of what it entails. For Rawls, the “duty of civility” is not only, or even mainly, about style. It is also about substance: when it comes to politics, we should do our best to ensure that the positions we advocate lie within the boundaries of public reason—in

But both courts and Legislature understood the situation; before both courts and Legislature, Moses stood stripped of all defenses and, it seemed in February 1925, both courts and Legislature would now step in and rectify the situation, the courts by affording redress to the individuals injured by his actions, the Legislature by insuring that he

utilities and public schools. We enable freedom not by rejecting government, but by affirming freedom as the guide to good government.