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...typical of Madison that he had come to Philadelphia eleven days early, the first outsider there. As the opening was delayed, Madison met daily with the other Virginia delegates to work out what came to be known as the Virginia plan, a blueprint for the Constitution and thus the basic agenda for the convention. His ideas were fairly representative of liberal opinion in his time. He was deeply suspicious of executive authority, of anything that smacked of monarchism. He believed profoundly in the sovereignty of the people and in their civil rights. But he was worried that political groups tended...
...breakdown of the fledgling confederation, even to the reappearance of European forces eager to recapture their lost lands. Bells rang and cannons fired for the public celebration of July 4, when many of these same men had met in this same statehouse to proclaim the Declaration of Independence eleven years earlier. But the secret debates, Washington wrote to Hamilton, "are now, if possible, in a worse train than ever; you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed...
Television and radio are putting on even bigger exhibitions, covering the entire country. CBS is presenting Bicentennial minutes that run between programs, while PBS has 90 three-minute reports from Bill Moyers. Moyers is also doing eleven one-hour specials, interviewing such constitutional experts as Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Brennan. ABC's entertainment division is preparing a one-hour tribute titled The Splendiferous Wham-Bam Constitution Special that will feature a number of stars, including Michael J. Fox and Barbra Streisand. On a serious note, both the ABC and NBC news divisions will...
...seven years, the week produced no lack of movement. For the first time in his presidency, Chun met face to face with Kim Young Sam, one of the country's two principal opposition leaders. At Kim's urging, the President then freed the other leader, Kim Dae Jung, from eleven weeks of house arrest. The stopover by Sigur, who is Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was prompted by growing alarm in Washington at the nightly clashes between demonstrators and riot police in the cities of a major ally. Sigur urged Chun and other officials...
...porn-busting business, which hardly means the case is closed. As Editorialist Phil Kerby once quipped, "Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature. Sex is a weak second." Some Fundamentalists have focused their sects' drive on getting Playboy and Penthouse removed from the shelves of 7- Eleven stores. Pressure groups have successfully lobbied the FCC to slap down Howard Stern and the other risk jockeys of raunch radio. In 1984 feminists won passage of an Indianapolis ordinance that defined pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/ or words" -- thereby implicitly condoning...