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Thus not only does the law of partible inheritance render it difficult for families to preserve their ancestral domains entire, but it deprives them of the inclination to attempt it, and compels them in some measure to co-operate with the law in their own extinction.

The action of authority is indeed thus rendered less irresistible and less perilous, but it is not totally suppressed.

policies, which were chopping the ladder they climbed up and then punishing people for falling.

established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women,

This unfortunate effect of the disparity of conditions is not observable in savage life: the Indians, although they are ignorant and poor, are equal and free.

nations of Europe commenced in the superior ranks of society, and was gradually and imperfectly communicated to the different members of the social body. In America, on the other hand, it may be said that the township was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union.

Often the road to politics is through culture.