Will argues that Congress's ability to legislate effectively is being undermined by politicians using it a vehicle for seeking re-election. Term limits, he says, would work to reverse the trend toward short-term popularity seeking and re-establish Congress as a proper deliberative chamber. USA is in the midst of a deep-seated governmental crisis. Congress's inability to formulate coherent policies and the low esteem in which it is consequently held lies at the heart of this crisis. Will contends that the constitution desperately needs term limits in Congress, and that partisan considerations, if there really be any, should be suppressed in the interests of the good of the state. George F. Will is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of numerous books, including Suddenly and The Morning After. He contributes a column to Newsweek.

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A discipline, at least to the initiated, is known more by the questions it asks than by the answers that it provides. For questions indicate goals or aspirations that answers may not reach. At certain periods, however, a field of knowledge may be more conspicuously characterized by the controversies that occur among those who work in it. When these take the form of debates over the adequacy of particular answers, as determined by agreed, even though sometimes imprecise, criteria of assessment, they are unlikely to be highly prominent, except for the immediate participants. When, on the other hand, such controversies extend to the standing of the questions asked and place in dispute the means of appraising answers, it becomes obvious to all that something is happening that has implications for the entire field. Clearly the discipline is undergoing redefinition or at least an attempt at redefinition that may sharply alter its meaning.

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Journal Article Presidential Nominating Politics in 1952, by Paul T. David, Malcolm Moos and Ralph M. Goldman Get access Presidential Nominating Politics in 1952. Edited by Paul T. David, Malcolm Moos, and Ralph M. Goldman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1954.—5 vols. xxii, 256; xi, 369; , xi, 363; xi, 344; xi, 298 pp. $17.50. David B. Truman David B. Truman Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 2, June 1955, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.2307/2145244 Published: 15 June 1955

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bility of the three partners. The Surinam and Antilles contributions are to be determined through joint consultation. The three countries, through the Statute, declare they will assist each other in the financial, economic, and cultural fields. Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles will thus be the beneficiaries of Netherlands technical and economic assistance. A Foundation for the Development of Mechanical Agriculture in Surinam has been set up for the purpose of transforming large areas of jungle into arable land. Through the intermediary of the Netherlands Government a few projects of the Foreign Operations Administration are now under way. Consultations are now being held between Surinam and The Netherlands on a tenyear development plan. Netherlands universities, the Netherlands Institute for Applied Scientific Research, and the Royal Tropical Institute are doing extensive research on Surinam timber to determine its possible industrial uses. Assistance is being rendered to the recently instituted Netherlands Antilles Technical Economic Council, which is investigating the economic possibilities of creating so-called "free port zones" in the Antilles. Netherlands specialists are being placed at the disposal of the Netherlands Antilles for the purpose of reorganization of the police force, for organization of child welfare, for improvement of port facilities, for the organization of social security, for revision of tax legislation, and for legislation concerning the building industry. In the cultural field, the Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and the Foundation for Scientific Research in Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles are already in operation. The latter is especially devoted to the coordination of research between Netherlands institutions of higher learning for the benefit of Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles. Rapport has also been established between Netherlands, French, and British institutions for the purpose of exchanging scientific information relating to the West Indies. In a recent Netherlands Government report to the Dutch Parliament, it was stated: "Cooperation between the partners in the realm in every possible and profitable way will be planned on the basis of long-term projects as soon as the new statute is in operation. The Government is convinced that the extent of the willingness of the partners to render assistance, where possible and justified, and the spirit with which this assistance is to be carried out will determine the strength of the ties between the partners." In all three parts of the realm, elections are free and secret. In Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, there is universal suffrage for all residents who are citizens or Dutch subjects, provided they have reached the age of twentythree.—DR. H. J. FRIEDERICY, Netherlands Embassy.

Journal Article The Lobbyists: The Art and Business of Influencing Lawmakers, by Karl Schriftgiesser; Congress: Its Contemporary Role, by Ernest S. Griffith Get access The Lobbyists: The Art and Business of Influencing Lawmakers. By Karl Schriftgiesser. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1951. —xiv, 297 pp. $3.50.Congress: Its Contemporary Role. By Ernest S. Griffith. New York, New York University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1951. —vii, 191 pp. $3.50. David B. Truman David B. Truman Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 1, March 1952, Pages 122–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/2145302 Published: 15 March 1952