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Young Americans for Freedom, sent around a rebuttal: "FEDERALISM: OLD AND NEW Or, The Pretentions of New Publius Exposed, By Cato...
...first exegesis came from Speechwriter William Safire, 40, who wrote a 19-page tract entitled "New Federalist Paper #1, by Publius"-in imitation of the Federalist Papers, signed "Publius," by Hamilton, Madison and Jay (TIME, Jan. 26). Nowhere does New Publius attempt to equal the lucid grace of the original, but his essay is an enthusiastic effort to erect some theoretical carapace over Nixon's policies. "The purpose of the New Federalism," writes New Publius, "is to come to grips with a paradox: a need for both national unity and local diversity; a need to protect both individual equality...
...Administration's ideal, says New Publius, is a "national localism." Such a notion, stated as a somewhat clumsy oxymoron, reopens the entire question of Federal power v. states' rights. For years, heirs of the New Deal have tended to dismiss states'-righters as rednecked Smerdyakovs. Shortly after New Publius circulated his paper, another White House speechwriter, Tom Charles Huston, 28, a former president...
Circulating among Government departments in Washington is a 19-page treatise called "New Federalist Paper No. 1, by Publius." Two centuries ago, "Publius" was Hamilton. Madison and Jay, whose collective prose, "written in Favour of the New Constitution," became a classic catechism of the American democracy. The Nixonian Publius is White House Speechwriter William Safire, a longtime G.O.P. public relations consultant...
...like the blessings of central government," writes the new Publius. "We also like the blessing of decentralization, or home rule. Many have spent the past year working out a synthesis of the most desirable in both central government and home rule. The purpose [of the new federalism] is to come to grips with a paradox: a need for both national unity and local diversity. The new federalists . . . are using an approach best described as 'national localism...