The basic argument for the one-term, six-year presidency is that the quest for reelection is at the heart of our problems with self-government. The desire for reelection, it is claimed, drives Presidents to do things they would not otherwise do. It leads them to make easy promises and to postpone hard decisions. A single six-year term would liberate presidents from the pressures and temptations of politics. Instead of worrying about reelection, they would be free to do only what was best for the country.
The argument is superficially attractive. But when you think about it, it is profoundly antidemocratic in its implications. It assumes Presidents know better than anyone else what is best for the country and that the people are so wrongheaded and ignorant that Presidents should be encouraged to disregard their wishes. It assumes that the less responsive a President is to popular desires and needs, the better President he or she will be. It assumes that the democratic process is the obstacle to wise decisions.
The theory of American democracy is quite the opposite. It is that the give-and-take of the democratic process is the best source of wise decisions. It is that the President's duty is not to ignore and override popular concerns but to acknowledge and heed them. It is "that the President's accountability to the popular will is the best guarantee that he or she will do a good job.
The one-term limitation, as Gouverneur Morris, final draftsman of the Constitution, persuaded the convention, would "destroy the great motive to good behavior," which is the hope of reelection. A President, said Olive Ellsworth, another Founding Father, "should be reelected if his conduct prove worthy of it. And he will be more likely to render himself worthy of it if he be rewardable with it."
The ban on reelection has other perverse consequences. Forbidding a President to run again, Gouverneur Morris said, is "as much as to say that we should give him the benefit of experience, and then deprive ourselves of use of it." George Washington stoutly opposed the idea. "I can see no propriety," he wrote, "in precluding ourselves from the service of any man, who on some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public."
A single six-year term would release Presidents from the test of submitting their records to the voters. It would be an impeachment of the democratic process itself. The Founding Fathers were everlastingly right when they turned down this well-intentioned but ill-considered proposal 200 years ago.
The main idea of the passage is that the United States Presidents should ______
A.have wide political experience
B.serve for a term of less than six years
C.serve for a term of more than six years
D.be allowed to be reelected
第1题
A、discussed
B、discussing
C、to be discussed
D、discuss
第2题
A、worked
B、work
C、works
D、would work请帮忙给出正确答案和分析,谢谢!
第3题
A、A. set up
B、B. was set up
C、C. be set up
D、D. is setting up
第4题
A、此安全策略工作在隧道模式
B、此安全策略需要手工配置密钥,SPI,安全协议和算法等参数
C、此安全策略工作在传输模式
D、此安全策需要采用IKE动态协商密钥,SP,安全协议和算法等参数
第5题
A、此安全策略工作在隧道模式
B、此安全策略未启动IPSec/IKE的NAT穿越功能
C、此安全策略采用的是ESP+AH的封装协议
D、此安全策略IKE动态协商密钥,SPI,安全协议和算法等参数
第6题
如图所示,SW1和SW2刚运行RSTP,现正在进行生成树计算。那么以下关于P/A机制中端口同步过程得描述,正确的是哪些项()。
A、SW2各端口同步后,下游端口均进入Discarding状态
B、SW2收到根桥发送过来的Proposal位置位的RSTBPDU,开始将自己的所有端口进入同步状态
C、在个端口同步的同时,SW2会返回Againreement位置位的回应RSTBPDU
D、SW2的下游端口同步时,AR端口的状态不变
第7题
如图所示,三台交换机都运行了RSTP协议,那么以下关于拓扑收敛过程的描述,正确的是()。
A、SW2上游链路端口在收到5W1发来的Proposal位置位的RSTBPDU后,会立即进入Forwarding状态
B、网络初始化时,图中所有交换机的端口都为指定端口,并处于Discarding状态
C、SW3的边缘端口在一轮P/A机制之后,会立即进入Forwarding状态
D、下游链路的设备互联端口通过P/A机制,快速进入Forwarding状态
第8题
A、在RSTP中,P/A机制主要目的是加快上游端口进入Forwarding状态的速度
B、在RSTP中,当交换机收到对端发来的Agreement位置位的RSTBPDU,会立即将指定端口进入Forwarding状态
C、在RSTP中,P/A机制主要目的是加快下游端口进入Forwarding状态的速度
D、在RSTP中,所有交换机在初始状态下都会发送Proposal位置位的RSTBPDU