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The `` positive state '' came into existence. | came | {
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation - the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt 's ill-starred but in effect victorious... | reflecting | {
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation - the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt 's ill-starred but in effect victorious... | been | {
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation - the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt 's ill-starred but in effect victorious... | played | {
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation - the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt 's ill-starred but in effect victorious... | altered | {
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation - the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt 's ill-starred but in effect victorious... | saved | {
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation - the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt 's ill-starred but in effect victorious... | placed | {
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Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people. | is | {
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Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people. | had | {
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Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom. | transformed | {
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Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom. | become | {
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Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom. | become | {
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A national consensus of near unanimity exists that these governmental efforts are desirable as well as necessary. | exists | {
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A national consensus of near unanimity exists that these governmental efforts are desirable as well as necessary. | are | {
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Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be. | Ratified | {
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Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be. | evidenced | {
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Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be. | waged | {
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Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be. | be | {
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The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i. e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history. | is | {
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The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation. | was | {
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The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation. | insured | {
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A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed : American immersion and involvement in world affairs. | traversed | {
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Internal national responsibility, now a truism, need not be documented. | need | {
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Internal national responsibility, now a truism, need not be documented. | documented | {
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Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example - that of employment - for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept. | be | {
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Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example - that of employment - for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept. | cite | {
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Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example - that of employment - for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept. | shown | {
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Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example - that of employment - for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept. | cuts across | {
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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress. | wallowing | {
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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress. | was | {
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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress. | stand | {
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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress. | allow | {
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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress. | operate | {
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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress. | cure | {
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That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment. | fell | {
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That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment. | enacted | {
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That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment. | assumed | {
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That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment. | taking | {
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That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment. | insure | {
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Hands-off the economy was replaced by conscious guidance through planning - the economic side of the constitutional revolution. | replaced | {
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In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state 's - responsibility '' proposal - provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only... | came | {
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In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state 's - responsibility '' proposal - provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only... | won | {
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In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state 's - responsibility '' proposal - provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only... | made | {
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The American people have indeed come a long way in the brief interval between 1930 and 1961. | come | {
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Internal national responsibility is a societal response to the impact of the Industrial Revolution. | is | {
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Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate IN the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era. | Reduced | {
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Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate IN the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era. | is | {
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National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations. | is | {
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A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959. | derived | {
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Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties. | Meeting | {
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Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties. | redefined | {
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Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties. | expanded | {
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Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties. | include | {
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It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations. | is | {
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The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare. | according | {
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The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare. | broadened | {
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The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare. | making | {
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The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare. | promote | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | Recognizing | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | is | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | employed | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | safeguard | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | asserted | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | included | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | establish | {
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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which ... | realized | {
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The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world. | become | {
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For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being. | live | {
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For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being. | is | {
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Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation 's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish. | operates | {
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Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation 's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish. | is | {
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Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation 's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish. | establish | {
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The hypothesis ventured here is that it does, and that evidence is accumulating validating that proposition. | ventured | {
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The hypothesis ventured here is that it does, and that evidence is accumulating validating that proposition. | is | {
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The hypothesis ventured here is that it does, and that evidence is accumulating validating that proposition. | accumulating | {
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The hypothesis ventured here is that it does, and that evidence is accumulating validating that proposition. | validating | {
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The content is not the same, however : rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' - those in the `` free world '' - that is basic. | is | {
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The content is not the same, however : rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' - those in the `` free world '' - that is basic. | is | {
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The content is not the same, however : rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' - those in the `` free world '' - that is basic. | is | {
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External national responsibility involves a burgeoning requirement that the leaders of the Western nations so guide their decisions as to further the viability of other friendly nations. | involves | {
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External national responsibility involves a burgeoning requirement that the leaders of the Western nations so guide their decisions as to further the viability of other friendly nations. | burgeoning | {
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External national responsibility involves a burgeoning requirement that the leaders of the Western nations so guide their decisions as to further the viability of other friendly nations. | guide | {
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External national responsibility involves a burgeoning requirement that the leaders of the Western nations so guide their decisions as to further the viability of other friendly nations. | further | {
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If internal responsibility suggests acceptance of the socialist ideal of equality, then external responsibility implies adherence to principles of ideological supranationalism. | suggests | {
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If internal responsibility suggests acceptance of the socialist ideal of equality, then external responsibility implies adherence to principles of ideological supranationalism. | implies | {
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Reference to two other concepts - nationalism and sovereignty - may help to reveal the contours of the new principle. | help | {
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Reference to two other concepts - nationalism and sovereignty - may help to reveal the contours of the new principle. | reveal | {
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In its beginnings the nation-state had to struggle to assert itself - internally, against feudal groups, and externally, against the power and influence of such other claimants for loyalty as the Church. | struggle | {
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In its beginnings the nation-state had to struggle to assert itself - internally, against feudal groups, and externally, against the power and influence of such other claimants for loyalty as the Church. | assert | {
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The breakup of the Holy Roman Empire and the downfall of feudalism led, not more than two centuries ago, to the surge of nationalism. | led | {
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( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging. ) | coincides | {
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( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging. ) | is | {
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( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging. ) | think of | {
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The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure. | is | {
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The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure. | epitomizes | {
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The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure. | glorifies | {
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