Sublime

As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7

axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

tutelage

Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population

Since few constraints limited Parr in the number of votes he reported (“he just counted ’em”), the effect of his turning in votes late would be that he could report almost any number of votes needed—which would mean that to a considerable extent the Duke of Duval could decide the result of any close statewide election all by himself; that the only

tutelary

Trial by jury may be considered in two separate points of view, as a judicial and as a political institution.

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

in the advanced political cultures of the Enlightenment tradition the creation of knowledge can and should be paramount, and the idea that representative government depends on proportionate representation in the legislature is unequivocally a mistake.