No class Wednesday: comp time for the extra hours you spent on simulation.
Papers for graduating seniors due Wednesday night at 11:59 pm.
Papers for all others due Friday at 11:59 pm.
Stylistic reminders
Review of the Dualities:
Two chambers: House v. Senate
- Senate filibuster. Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Two parties: GOP v. Dems
Two political branches: Congress v. President
Life Lessons
Simulation?
In all bodies, those who will lead must also, in a considerable degree, follow. They must conform their propositions to the taste, talent, and disposition of those whom they wish to conduct; therefore, if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it, nothing but such a supreme degree of virtue as very rarely appears in the world, and for that reason cannot enter into calculation, will prevent the men of talent disseminated through it from becoming only the expert instruments of absurd projects! If, what is the more likely event, instead of that unusual degree of virtue, they should be actuated by sinister ambition and a lust of meretricious glory, then the feeble part of the assembly, to whom at first they conform, becomes in its turn the dupe and instrument of their designs. In this political traffic, the leaders will be obliged to bow to the ignorance of their followers, and the followers to become subservient to the worst designs of their leaders.
Mickey Edwards: "People think what they think, not what we want them to think."
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