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Show Antioue Methods After a month's campaign, the German elect a president. The next week he is in office. If an irreconcilable deadlock comes in the parliament, as it has done three time in a year, the old parliament is dissolved that day, and three weeks later a new parliament is elected, in office and in session, with a new chancellor at the head of the government, chosen on the issue of that deadlock, and in accordance with the vote of the people on it. A similar deadlock comes in America. An election, probably prob-ably not on that issue, comes off on a pre-determined calendar date, a year later for the house and a third of the senate, three yeass later for the president, and five years lated for the last of the senate. The campaign lasts eight months. The new president is not in office until four montns, and the new congress not in session until eleven months after election. Meantime, the defeated president and congress continue to rule the country. Why this enormous contrast in mechanical efficiency? Jut two reasons. One is that ours was the most advanced system sys-tem in the world in 1789. The other is that the roads were bad, and there were no railroads or telegraphs in 1789. And we have been taught that it is "un-patriotic" to know anything any-thing about government that has been found out since that date. |