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John Biver

John Biver

John Biver is a Christian, a husband, a son, a brother, and an American citizen. He is a graduate of Virginia Wesleyan University where he studied political science, political philosophy and history. In addition to many years working in the private sector, John has worked in politics and government in Washington, D.C., and in Illinois at the state and local level.

DispatchesNovember 18, 2002

Cross, Tenhouse, and the Importance of Ideas

By John Biver

“To get good government means to get consent to good governors, and this is the political problem.” So said political science scholar Walter Berns in 1965. Media reports say today is the day for…

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“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)

 

“A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788)

 

 

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