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THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE – Shani Taha, at microphone, center, had extra motivation for participating at the League of Women Voters’ Charter forum Monday: The greater La Connerite is running for District 1 Freeholder. Meet her at the candidates forum Thursday at Maple Hall, 7 p.m. – Photo by Ken Stern
Outside of law school and political science classrooms, it isn’t often that James Madison and his Federalist No. 51, a detailed essay on governmental checks and balances, is cited as a point of interest.
Or even topic for debate.
Monday night was one of those times.
The name of Madison, the nation’s fourth president and widely regarded as the architect of the U.S. Constitution, was invoked during a mostly heady – though sometimes emotional – two-hour public forum on the County charter government initiative at the Skagit PUD Building in Mount Vernon.
A standing room only crowd of ab...
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