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some responsible group emerges, as holds true in a bicamer-
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al system or in any group living, for that matter; but the
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problem is the nature of continuing responsibility. Would
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you want to comment on that? By continuing responsibility,
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when you have partisanship as your basis, your Democratic
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and Republican party make pledges that are long-term as
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well as short-term in requirement and, therefore, they
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have to the public a continuing responsibility and, when
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election time comes, there is a way of facing how well
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they have met that continuing responsibility.
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Now, I recognize that this may be in theory
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more often than it is in practice, but at least this is
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the theory of the responsibility of political parties.
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Who then holds the continuing responsibility, not just
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for one session, but over a number of sessions, for these
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cliques are ephemeral?
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DR. WINSLOW: I am not so sure that statement
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is true, they are ephemeral, any more than it would be
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true they are ephemeral in Maryland. It seems to me, any
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careful observation of the Maryland legislatures indicates
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that, despite there is a short-out on major matters, you
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