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: Essentially Contested AmericaSpecter?s Defection & the Separation of Powers
By Robert Justin Lipkin (index)
There’s a conventional understanding of why Arlen Specter defected. Basically, he defected because the Republican Party is on the cusp of imploding. There different versions of this story, one in which Specter is a cowardly villain the other which blames the contraction of the Republican Party. But suppose there’s another reason. Suppose Specter believed some [...]
Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).
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