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FROM Louis René

Beres, Purdue’s Professor Emeritus of Political Science:

“Earliest days of our republic, presidents had familiarity with Locke, Vattel, Hobbes, Grotius, Rousseau, Montesquieu.” None of today’s candidates “can identify one of those philosophic founders of American political thought.” The Princetoneducated Ph.D. concluded his concept of modern political oratory with: “Today it’s ‘Just shut up and sit down.’ ”