He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

Noah Webster, Jr. ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 ), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

American education reformer and abolitionist, Horace Mann ( 1796 – 1859 ) taught political economy, intellectual and moral philosophy, and natural theology.

Although she was a product of the Daley political machine, Byrne positioned herself as a reformer in her first campaign.

According to Solon the poet, Solon the reformer was a voice for political moderation in Athens at a time when his fellow citizens were increasingly polarized by social and economic differences:

His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor ( Edward Arnold ), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill.

* Thomas Muir of Huntershill, ( 1765 – 1799 ), political reformer, leader of the Scottish " Friends of the People Society "

* Thomas Hardy ( 1752 – 1832 ), political reformer and founder of the London Corresponding Society

* John Lloyd ( political reformer ) ( 1833 – 1915 ), Welsh-born member of the London County Council

Thomas Hill Green ( April 7, 1836 – March 26, 1882 ) was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement.

Carrillo was a reformer, responsible for the expansion of coffee production in Costa Rica and who had taken the first steps towards ending Costa Rica's political links with Central America,

Famous residents born or who have lived in the area include the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde, former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP, TV and National Lottery draw presenter Jenni Falconer, singers Amy Macdonald and Lena Martell, as well as former Miss Scotland and Miss United Kingdom Nieve Jennings and actor and rock singer Steve Valentine.

His political savvy, combined with an apparent desire to correct inequities, made Minnesota's twentieth governor a surprisingly prolific reformer.

Gore House was once the residence of political reformer, William Wilberforce between 1808 and 1821.

; was a Bakumatsu and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential around the fall of the Tokugawa bakufu.

By his contributions to the Review he obtained considerable reputation as political economist and parliamentary reformer.

* Thomas Muir ( political reformer )

Henry Charles Lea ( September 19, 1825 – October 24, 1909 ) was an American historian, civic reformer, and political activist.

Gerrard Winstanley ( 1609 – 10 September 1676 ) was an English Protestant religious reformer and political activist during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

His father, John Dobell, was a wine merchant, his mother a daughter of Samuel Thompson ( 1766-1837 ), a London political reformer.

* Thomas Hardy ( political reformer ) ( 1752 – 1832 ), English activist

Allan Octavian Hume ( 6 June 1829-31 July 1912 ) was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist and horticulturalist in British India.

* Thomas Muir ( political reformer ) ( 1765 – 1799 ), leader of the Scottish " Friends of the People Society "

Because of the political upheaval in Germany in the 1930's, Steinberg was forced to restrict his activities to the Jewish community.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every quarter, but not entirely without a staunch following of noted political thinkers and students of jurisprudence.

Until the Charter of Liberties was issued in the fall of 1958, there were no guarantees of the right to assemble or to organize for political purposes.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.

These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing political consequences.