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Article: (B) OPINION: Why New York Democrats Love Hillary Clinton.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- August 4, 2000
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Aug. 4--By William Stern
NEW YORK--New York Democrats may shrug off the carpetbagger charge thrown at U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, but their indifference to her never having lived in the state reveals something important.
America's Founding Fathers had clear reasons for devising a political system in which states would send representatives to the national legislature. The Founders argued that states would always have regional interests, which needed a hearing in the national decision-making process, if states were to go along with decisions they disagreed with and the republic were to work.
This idea of governance--crucial to the ...