Second, this would cause a vast diversion of political attention and resources in a country that is already too diverted from governance toward what one might call identity-issues.

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Second, this would cause a vast diversion of political attention and resources in a country that is already too diverted from governance toward what one might call identity-issues. Would the debate on health-care reform, for example, really be enriched by a national referenda to enshrine (or forbid) the single payer? For this is just the sort of amendment-a statute by any other name-that occurs in states that have such mech- — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 265 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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• Popular referenda would divert attention from governance toward identity issues. #corroborates (1.00) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 265