Parties and politics.pdf

extracted text: turncoat, the robber, the fraud, the smuggler, the hy pocrite, the sciolist, and all the other vicious elements that hate irifested our poor country. This — the develop ment of a strong sense of personal and social responsi bility — is an indispensable aim of a university if it is to act as the conscience of the nation. — V. G. Sinco. PARTIES AND POLITICS I must repeat again my conviction that parties are useful, effective, and altogether indispensable instruments of constitutional democracy. A country like the United States, Great Britain, or Sweden might wish or even choose to swap one kind of party system for another, but it could never wish or choose, not while it remained a constitutional democracy, to proceed on its way with no party system at all. The essence of democracy is politics, and politics withiout parties in a widespread and diverse community is really no politics at all. — By Clinton Rossiter in Parties and Politics in America. 34 Panorama
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