Republican observers of this fraudulent process report seeing chads all over the floor in many instances. It just isn't well-done quite yet. In November 1996, Fr. The question here explored, in full awareness of its far-reaching consequences, is whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime. Americans are not accustomed to speaking of a regime.
Regimes are what other nations have.
The American tradition abhors the notion of the rulers and the ruled. The traditions of democratic self-governance are powerful in our civics textbooks and in popular consciousness. This symposium asks whether we may be deceiving ourselves and, if we are, what are the implications of that self- deception. The question that is the title of this symposium is in no way hyperbolic. The subject before us is the end of democracy.