Does A Representative Owe You His Conscience Or Simply to Represent Your Short-term Desires?

+ What the First Congress Can Teach Us + Role and Function of Congress in Government

Senator William Fulbright, a Democrat from Arkansas in the 1960s and 1970s, privately a liberal on civil rights, explained his opposition to ending Jim Crow segregation to the press back in the early 1960s. “Boys, do you LIKE being reporters? Well, I LIKE being a Senator!”

Of COURSE members of Congress may lose the next election if they have the guts to …