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Se I welceme this opportunity to stand apart from the daily issues
of
legislation, and look at some of the larger implications of mid-twentieth
century American politics.
It strikes me that we are confrented with four serious crises:
1 - A crisis in the Twe-Party System.
2 - A crisis of Executive-Legislative Balance.
3 - A crisis of Federal-State Balance.
4 - A crisis of Judicial-Legislative Balance.
I shall direct my brief remarks to these areas.
*
At the present time, one political party controls the White House and
more than twe-thirds of both Houses of Congress - thus giving rise to con-
siderable cencern for the survival of the two-party system.
There is nothing censtitutionally ordained about running our gevernment
through twe great pelitical parties. But almest from the start our nation
made the way operate.
choice that this would be the best to It has proved to be
a wise decision. We have avoided the chaes of the multi-party system and the
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