Amy Chua Quotes
Perhaps democracy should be begun at the local level first. America was many local democracies before democracy came to the national level.
Amy L. Chua, Attorney, Political Scientist, & Writer, Interview, NBC John McLaughlin's One On One, July 29, 2007
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Since Eleanor Roosevelt wrote this, the population has grown so rapidly, that many districts are so large, that most people only know a small percentage of their neighbors.
Even in the 21st century, French Ministry of Education boasted that on any given day, they know what Algebra problems students throughout the country will be doing for homework that evening. The national government can control any aspect of French society.
There was huge pressure on the central government to decentralize as they held all the power in Indonesian society. However, if they devolved power to the Provinces (States), many of them could be large enough and independent enough to secede and become an independent country as East Timor had done. So the Indonesian power structure bypassed the Provincial governments and devolved power directly to the local governments, none of which was independent enough to go it alone. The desired objective was met—no more secessions. However, there was no one to worry about regional and national issues and problems as the politicians who had power were all local. The country was becoming non-functional in many ways.
Lieber is best known because he was assigned by President Lincoln to study the then international laws of war and prepare a manual for the guidance of union troops in the Civil War. Lincoln then issued the document as a general order.
This quotation is one of the early arguments for local control in a republican government. Note the importance of the nobility and chief gentry. Although a republican, Milton was no democrat.
He warned that if there were quick elections, the Islamists being the only organized civil and political organizations were bound to win and then it would be very hard to create civic democratic institutions which would not only be competition for the Islamists but would likely be secular—their worst fear. He generally turned out to be right as Lewis was the Western World’s greatest Islamic Historian,
Amy Lynn Chua is an American law professor and writer. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She is also known for her parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2011, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, one of The Atlantic’s Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy’s Global Thinkers.
