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• Matthew Holden Jr.(Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee)(University of Virginia political scientist; views on impeachment)

  - 1999-03-01

  Legislators should not deviate from analyzing the nation's potential gains and losses from impeaching the president. Some of them have willfully ignored the public's desire to be relieved of discussions on the political repercussions of the sex scandal surrounding Pres Bill Clinton. Such reactions from the public reflect their assessment...

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• Thomas Jefferson and historical self-construction: the earth belongs to the living?

  - 1999-01-01

  Thomas Jefferson in his letters to James Madison wrote the living generation of people should have control over the laws that govern them, and an inherited rule of law was an infringement on the rights of the living. However, in his private life he tried to ensure that his political...

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• Thomas Jefferson: pragmatist or visionary?

  - 1993-04-01

  How should we view Thomas Jefferson in this, the 250th anniversary of his birth? Colin Bonwick offers his assessment of the man as America's third president, party leader and Enlightenment enthusiast. Thomas Jefferson believed he knew the value of his own...

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