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Lawmaking and Public Opinion Research: The President and Patrick Caddell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Hans Zeisel
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The people's sense of what is good and right is both the ultimate source and the ultimate strength of the rules that govern a democratic society. If there is a major discrepancy between that sense and the rules, the rules and those who cling to them will eventually disappear.

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American Bar Foundation Research Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Winter 1980 , pp. 133 - 139
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1980 

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References

1 New York Times, July 16, 1979, at A-10, col. 5.Google Scholar

2 The subject of this essay is polling the population for its views, not the pricing of gas at the pump. For that reason I have not hesitated to state the economic principles underlying that pricing in what some may regard as overly simplified. Simplified or not, the formulation is essentially correct.Google Scholar

3 Caddell's Cambridge Report is sent to subscribers. Compare Elizabeth Drew's piece in the April 27, 1979, issue of the New Yorker: Reporter at Large, Phase: In Search of a Definition.Google Scholar

4 New York Times, supra note 1, at A-10, col. 5. There is a certain irony in the fact that, for the time being at least. the President is pursuing the other route—increasing the price of gasoline.Google Scholar