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But
why, Euro-enthusiasts have been asking themselves, can’t clear
majority of voters be persuaded by two fine arguments that we have
offered to them? The first is that the constitution is a noble
document designed to help today’s enlarged EU march on more
efficiently towards an "ever close union" [...] The other
is that the treaty is just a technical matter that will make little
real difference and is to boring for voters to worry their pretty
heads about.
A
song for Europe, The Economist, May 28, 2005.
America
is too big, too diverse, and too free to be run by bureaucrats
sitting in office buildings in one city. We must replace our
centralized, micromanaged, Washington-based bureaucracy with a
dramatically decentralized system more appropriate to a
continent-wide country. [...] We simply must shift power and
responsibility back to state governments, local governments,
nonprofit institutions, and - most important of all - individual
citizens. "Close is better" should be the rule of thumb
for our decision making; less power in Washington and more back
home, our consistent theme. Newt
Gingrich: To Renew America, HarperCollins Publishers, New
York, 1995.
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