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Recent scholarship on John Locke's Two Treatises of Government has drawn particular attention to the colonial antecedents and applications of the theory of appropriation in chapter V of theSecond Treatise. This attention has coincided with a more general interest among political theorists in the historical and theoretical relationship between liberalism and colonialism. This essay reviews the surviving evidence for Locke's knowledge of the Carolina colony and argues that it was both more extensive and more enduring than previous commentators have suggested. In particular, the essay provides evidence that Locke was engaged in revising the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina at just the moment in the summer of 1682 when he was most likely to have composed chapter V of theSecond Treatise and hence that there was an immediate and identifiable colonial context that contributed to his distinctive theory of property.

An interview with Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi that addresses the future development of Iraq, the US's involvement in Iraqi liberation, the process of de-Baathification in Iraq, the international community's accusations of wrongdoing against Chalabi, & the extent of corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq is presented. Questions concerning whether Iraq's interim government will engender a legitimate democracy, minority groups' right to self-determination, & the formation of Iraq's legislature are addressed. It is contended that the US should not have occupied Iraq following Operation Iraqi Freedom & that a provisional Iraqi government should have been established prior to the ousting of Saddam Hussein. The issue of whether de-Baathification processes have been responsible for rebel insurgency throughout Iraq is then pondered. After exploring Chalabi's relations with Hussein following the US's capture of the latter, the international community's charges that Chalabi engaged in embezzlement & falsified reports of the Hussein regime's possession of weapons of mass destruction are countered. In addition, it is stated that Paul Bremer actually prevented the Iraqi Interim Government Council's examination of whether the United Nation's oil-for-food program in Iraq was indeed corrupt. J. W. Parker

A review essay on books by (1) Bill Granstaff, Losing Our Democratic Spirit: Congressional Deliberation and the Dictatorship of Propaganda (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999); (2) Michael W. Shelton, Talk of Power, Power of Talk: The 1994 Health Care Reform Debate and Beyond (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000); (3) Congress Online Project, Congress Online: Assessing and Improving Capitol Hill Web Sites (2002); (4) Congress Online Project, Constituents and Your Web Site: What Citizens Want to See on Congressional Web Sites (2001); (5) Congress Online Project, Email Overlaod in Congress: Managing a Communications Crisis (2001); (6) James A. Thurber & Colton C. Campbell (Eds), Congress and the Internet (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003); (7) Jeremy Zilber & David Niven, Racialized Coverage of Congress: The News in Black and White (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000); & (8) C. Danielle Vinson, Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members: Through Local Eyes (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2003).