Francis Bennion is a writer on legal and other subjects and was formerly one of the Parliamentary Counsel.
‘So, then,’ says a founding father, quill poised, to the founding fathers around him in Gary Larson’s cartoon, ‘Would that be “Us the people” or “We the...
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