Monday is fall break. Read these items for Wednesday, October 19.
- Tocqueville, pp. 99-105, 262-276
- Federalist # 78.
- Wurman, ch. 6.
- Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, "The Joy of Jury Duty," The Atlantic, May 3, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-joy-of-jury-duty/275444/
- Also watch this clip from the 1959 movie Anatomy of a Murder. Read background here, which explains why law school profs show this clip in courses on criminal law. Note: the scene includes brief references to sexual assault.
Find more statistics at Statista
- Most federal employees are in the executive branch.
- Most executive-branch employees are not political appointees. (Here is a guide to jobs for political appointees.)
- Deep State? No, the FBI was not out to get Trump.
- Trump's efforts at control:
Presidents gave relatively few speeches in the 18th and 19th centuries. Washington delivered his Farewell Address in writing.
- Norms were different.
- Technology did not allow the president's voice to reach many people
Households with Radio Sets:
1922 | 60,000 |
1927 | 6,750,000 |
1932 | 18,450,000 |
1937 | 24,500,000 |
1942 | 30,600,000 |
Source: Historical Statistics of the United States, 796.
FDR and the radio: Day of Infamy (skip to 4:05).
Data: Public activities
On March 8, 1983, President Reagan spoke to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, He expressed his views on the Soviet Union, famously calling it an "evil empire." He defended the Judeo-Christian traditions against the Soviet Union's totalitarian leadership and lack of religious faith, saying that these differences were at the heart of the conflict between the two nations.
This document makes clear that Reagan did not simply read the words before him: he played a very active part in writing the speech itself. One amusing sidelight: speechwriter Tony Dolan included a spurious quotation from Alexis deTocqueville -- which Reagan changed:
Reagan, religion, and the spurious Tocqueville line.
And of course, the "evil empire."
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