Appellate Courts Quotes
The early revolutionary Chinese Communists had a much more democratic and civil-liberties oriented view of government than after the had won and gained control of China. Then the problems were so enormous with such meager resources that the insecurity of the party government let to a civil rights flip flop and a politically authoritarian government. Stability is today the most important priority for the Chinese Communist party so that free speech, protests and other civil liberties are curtailed. Economic development is the more important activity and political development is lagging, but while economic development is racing ahead, Chinese political development improves only slowly. Dissidents like Liu Xiaobo are pushing the process.
The logic is that communities and areas—even countries have finite resources. Since we have a welfare society in which we will not allow people to starve, society must provide for children whose parents cannot. Therefore, individuals ought not to be allowed to breed beyond their ability to care for the children for if many would do so, the capacity of the community could be overwhelmed. A middle ground is that while the final decision should be left to the individual family, the society ought to educate and persuade members to limit their breeding.
This statement in the President’s Second Inaugural. Infuriated the politicians of the Southern States. Remember, at the time there was brutal discrimination throughout most of the South, and more important to the South than the fact if the discrimination was their perverse view that this was a right, proper and necessary state of affairs for the welfare of the people and was required by Christianity’s mandates as they read the Scripture. For the President to state so publicly that discrimination was contrary to the law, justice, good faith, citizenship and fairness was a major shock. Since the early days of reconstruction after the Civil war in the Grant Administration, no president had spoken so publicly and openly against the Southern status quo.
It was a 3-way race where the right wing of the Republican Party had stacked the deck so that Taft would be selected the nominee despite the greater popularity of TR who then decided to run as a 3rd party candidate. He beat the Republican nominee and incumbent President Taft soundly and the two of them together got many more votes than Wilson but Wilson had the most votes with only 42 percent. He got the loyal Democrat votes but lost the independents to Roosevelt who in turn lost the conservative Republicans to Taft. Wilson had the mathematics which made up for his personal weaknesses. What is very interesting about this quotation is that Wilson thought of himself as an intellectual as opposed to TR, but in reality Roosevelt was not only also an intellectual but the only President who was a world class scientists.
