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Term Limits: A Distracting Diversion |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Richard G. Lugar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,428 Words, 15,602 Characters |
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RESTORATION
Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery
of Deliberative Democracy
George Will
New York: The Free Press, 1992
260 pp., $19.95
Many readers of George Will's Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Democracy will approach this book seeking intellectual underpinnings for today's emotional term limits movement. The grounds for such an emotional surge are understandable. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have a huge majority that may be destined to stay that way for decades, barring an act of God. After a six-year interval (1981-86) of Republican majorities in the U.S. Senate, Democrat majorities seem to have settled in for many years to come.
Life for President Ronald Reagan was bearable because he was able to present programs and nominees for office ...
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...change and his healthy conservative observation that radical change usually has unintended consequences. While standing on the ground of his own well-developed conservative philosophy and that of Edmund Burke, Will leaves behind much of the populist rhetoric typical of term-limit supporters. Unfortunately, his own leap of faith over his prudent skepticism of radical change ignores reality. vbcrlf
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