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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | August 22, 1994 issue

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This article presents the author's views on various political issues in the U.S. According to the author the right to the franchise is a precious one, baptized in honorable blood. It represents rather more than the model of consumer sovereignty in the market place to which it is sometimes compared by liberal ideologues. But the Isserman-Kazin method would have it mean rather less. If one announce in advance that whatever a party does it will have the vote, then one surrenders the right to choose and the right to think, and in effect hand the hard-won ballot to someone-else. The ones in 1968 who decided that it was morally impossible to vote for politician Hubert Humphrey, were showing of an appreciation for the meaning of the franchise.

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HUMPHREY, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; POLITICAL rights; SUFFRAGE; ELECTIONS -- United States; VOTING; UNITED States
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