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- 3 - 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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