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Conservatives Winning the Court Battle "The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years, even decades, and requires a ruthless disposition." Conservatives invested heavily in organizations that would nurture and support lawyers and justices who stuck to an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution. Described by Jurist Robert Bork in 1971, means court understanding is theoretically derived from the original meaning of the Constitution at the time it was written. 1945 Foundation for Economic Education 1971 Powell Manifesto, a memo from soon to be Supreme Court Justice Louis Powell, in which he advised the Chamber of Commerce that it had to organize businesses into a political force because, he claimed, corporations and the free market system were “under broad attack, ..."
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1969 McGovern Commission, which reformed the rules that would govern the 1972 Democratic convention, was the Democratic response answered with the ,. It attempted to give greater influence to those in the past that had a marginal voice, mainly women, blacks and young people (defined as those under 30). The choice of McGovern indicated a new direction for the party's primary constituency, affluent, very well educated suburban liberals. The history of this new direction explored by Thomas Frank Listen Liberals. Success is earned with merit, the ability to win in a globalized world. These highly educated technocrats were also described by George Friedman in his 2020 book, The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and then Triumph. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Return to 2024 Election Information |
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