More than anything, the Baucus plan is about exerting control over the delivery of medical care as a way to control cost--and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be the instrument of that coercion.

Offending your supporters has real-world consequences. With one grave misjudgment, George W. Bush has shattered the coalition that brought and returned him to power in 2000 and 2004.

In this Bradley Lecture, Goldwin discusses the obstacles andconflictswhichhad to be addressedin order to ratify the Constitution of the United States.