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The root sources of the crisis of legitimacy now gripping both the civil & military components in the governance of the Amer military establishment are traced. Then it is shown how our nat'l reactions to revolutionary changes in post-WWII military technology & in world pol shattered the long-standing 1789 constitutional formula for a controlled military impulse. Next focus is on certain aspects of the legitimacy crisis. Constitutional assumptions underlying amateur-expert relations in military governance have been unhinged by the tendency of the civil order to subordinate its own judgment of an "emergency need" to the judgment of the professional military experts. Further, old constitutional fiscal controls over the military establishment have been shattered by the Congress, & Congress has allowed its own constitutional power to "declare war" to be swallowed up by the grants to the president of his assumption of a unilateral discretionary power to "make war." Finally, some remedies for the crisis of legitimacy are examined, focusing not only on congressional reform, but on the role of the electorate & the indispensable need for a president to place himself under a self-denying ordinance. Modified HA.

A CONVERGENCE OF FUNCTIONS, FINANCING, AND GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN "PUBLIC" AND "PRIVATE" SECTORS OF SOCIETY CLOUD STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF POLICY MAKING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION. THE AUTHORS ARGUE FOR CLOSER EXAMINATION OF REPRESENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF CITIZEN GOVERNING BOARDS. THIS ESSAY INTRODUCES THIS SPECIAL ISSUE: SELF-GOVERNANCE IN THE INTERPENETRATED SOCIETY.

A CONVERGENCE OF FUNCTIONS, FINANCING AND GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN "PUBLIC" AND "PRIVATE" SECTOR OF SOCIETY CLOUD THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF POLICY MAKING, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION. FORCES CREATING AND SHAPING THE INTERPENETRATED SOCIETY ARE TRENDS TOWARD PROFESSIONALISM AND CORPORATISM. THE HEALTH INDUSTRY PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE. INCREASINGLY, BUT WITH LITTLE FORMAL GUIDANCE FROM POLITICAL THEORY, THE AMERICAN SYSTEM HAS AUTHORIZED PRIVATELY CONSTITUTED CITIZEN GOVERNING BOARDS TO SPEND TAX DOLLARS, MAKE AND IMPLEMENT POLICY CHOICES, AND EVALUATE OUTCOMES. THIS ESSAY ARGUES FOR CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THESE LITTLE STUDIED CREATURES OF GOVERNANCE AND INTRODUCES THE SUBSEQUENT ARTICLES ADDRESSED TO THE SUBJECT.